Scientists join Riverdance to investigate extreme demands of elite dance

Scientists join Riverdance to investigate extreme demands of elite dance

SCIENTISTS have launched a pioneering study with the cast of Riverdance to examine the demands of elite-level live dancing. The investigation, led by the University of Chichester, aims to understand the physiological exertion of professional...
Composite glass breakthrough by Queensland scientists could help make phone screens 'unbreakable'

Composite glass breakthrough by Queensland scientists could help make phone screens ‘unbreakable’

Cracked phone screens could become a thing of the past thanks to breakthrough research by a global team of scientists. Diamond’s electron Physical Science Imaging Centre (ePSIC) was used in a study that has...
80 percent of world economy now aiming for net zero - but not all pledges are equal

80 percent of world economy now aiming for net zero – but not all...

More than 80% of global GDP – and 77% of global greenhouse gases - are now covered by a national net zero target, up from 68% and 61% last year, according to a new...
Research: New artificial neural network detects radiographic sacroiliitis with accuracy

Research: New artificial neural network detects radiographic sacroiliitis with accuracy

New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting, found that an innovative new artificial neural network can detect radiographic sacroiliitis in patients with suspected axial spondyloarthritis, a...
Research finds treat-to-target ULT strategy manages gout effectively and safely with no cardiovascular toxicity

Research finds treat-to-target ULT strategy manages gout effectively and safely with no cardiovascular toxicity

New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting, shows that allopurinol and febuxostat may effectively lower urate levels when used in a treat-to-target approach. Importantly, both urate-lowering...
Recherchers seen as trustworthy experts when sharing their work in online videos

Recherchers seen as trustworthy experts when sharing their work in online videos

Any writer can tell you that the narrator of a story can make a significant difference. A new study finds that the same holds true for science videos, with viewers responding positively to researchers...
Jefferson Lab: Quarks and antiquarks at high momentum shake the foundations of visible matter

Jefferson Lab: Quarks and antiquarks at high momentum shake the foundations of visible matter

Two independent studies have illuminated unexpected substructures in the fundamental components of all matter. Preliminary results using a novel tagging method could explain the origin of the longstanding nuclear paradox known as the EMC...
Scientists identify new enzyme that infects plants - paving the way for potential disease prevention

Scientists identify new enzyme that infects plants – paving the way for potential disease...

Scientists have identified an unusual enzyme that plays a major role in the infection of plants - and have shown that disabling this enzyme effectively stops plant disease in its tracks. By discovering previously unexplored...
Study: A New Dataset Could Aid Climate Justice Research

Study: A New Dataset Could Aid Climate Justice Research

The impacts of climate change strike hardest in socially and economically vulnerable communities; knowing this, researchers have constructed a variety of indices to try to identify populations most at risk. These datasets often rely...
Study: Green light for European Space Agency mission to Venus

Study: Green light for European Space Agency mission to Venus

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Royal Holloway, University of London and Imperial College London will make key contributions to the mission, called EnVision, which has been selected as the fifth Medium Class mission...

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