Environmental scientist at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Yuwei Jia examined the effects of metals in farming soils in her doctoral work, Investigation on soil and water contaminants by ...

Chair of the Lords’ science and technology committee Lord Mair has urged the government there was now increasing global competition for STEM talent due to US funding policies. “Without changes to ...

They claim their study at Racah Institute of Physics in Jerusalem challenges prevailing explanations for the soft curving edges of the popular garden flower. In recent years, petal curling has been ...

Project co-leader, professor of infectious disease ecology Heather Ferguson, said: “Their participation has helped fill large gaps in our understanding of mosquitoes both in Scotland and the UK more ...

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) damage is common in males too but particularly frequent among female athletes and especially soccer players. One of the four key ligaments sited in the knee, it links ...

The work, by a Durham university team led by Dr Jake Brooker which studied 90 of the ape species in two African sanctuaries, challenges assumptions about the degree of difference between humans’ two ...

Head of policy and engagement Rosalind Gill said university-business collaboration had risen impressively during the last two decades. However, she warned that the stability of the system and the ...

The DESSIE system, created by KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (), uses video to reveal a horse’s 3D motion, allowing vets to be better able to spot ...

Writing in eBioMedicine, researchers say this might help ensure patients avoid being given inappropriate treatments and unnecessarily enduring associated side effects. Senior author Sanjay Sisodiya, ...

The study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology has highlighted that people with higher levels of troponin in their blood are at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke ...

Organised with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, it drew together laboratory managers and bioscience professionals from across the UK to focus on sustainability in scientific research.

Dr Dirk Mörmann, managing director of the Endress+Hauser Level+Pressure competence centre, was killed in a car accident while returning from a business meeting, said the company. He took over as head ...