Queen's University
Queen's University was established in 1841 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Today, Queen's University has over 20,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree students. Queen's University is ranked second in the Medical-Doctoral category in Canada and the university as a whole is ranked 117 world-wide. Queen's is noted for engineering, mechanical engineering and technology.
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Kingston, Ontario, Canada. K7L 3N6.
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"Queen's University" in the news:
Eye floaters and flashes of light linked to retinal tear, detachment
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Suddenly seeing floaters or flashes of light may indicate a serious eye problem that - if untreated - could lead to blindness, a new study shows.
Teens' mental health affects how long they stay in school, new study shows
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Queen's University researcher Steven Lehrer has won a prestigious international award in recognition of his contributions to health economics.
Discovery in worms points to more targeted cancer treatment
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at Queen's University have found a link between two genes involved in cancer formation in humans, by examining the genes in worms. The groundbreaking discovery provides a foundation for how tumor-forming ...
Ionic Liquid's Makeup Measurably Non-Uniform at the Nanoscale
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical compositions ...
New research could help protect frontline troops
Nov 04, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at Queen's University Belfast's Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) is working to develop futuristic communications systems that could help protect frontline troops.
North America automobile sector bottom of 'world sustainability league'
Oct 30, 2009 |
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North American car manufacturers have come bottom of the league in the largest ever international study of the global automobile sector's sustainability performance.
Like a hungry teen, life on Earth had big growth spurts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Twice in the Earth's history, living creatures underwent astonishing growth spurts, and each time, new organisms emerged that were a million times larger than anything that had existed before.
First evidence for a second breeding season among migratory songbirds
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South ...
Arctic lake sediments show warming, unique ecological changes in recent decades
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate ...
Going plasmonic in search of faster computing, communications
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic ...
Increased success a 'virtual' certainty for rugby players (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Rugby players worldwide could benefit from a new virtual reality training programme created at Queen's University Belfast. Team members from Ulster Rugby have been working with researchers in the School of Psychology at Queen's ...
New nanotech sensor developed with medical, chemistry applications
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Researchers at Oregon State University and other institutions have developed a new "plasmonic nanorod metamaterial" using extraordinarily tiny rods of gold that will have important applications in medical, biological and ...
New technology detects chemical weapons in seconds
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Scientists at Queen's University Belfast are developing new sensors to detect chemical agents and illegal drugs which will help in the fight against the threat of terrorist attacks.
Chronic pain treatments work better together, says anesthesiologist
Sep 30, 2009 |
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People who suffer from debilitating neuropathic pain may get more relief and sleep better by combining two commonly-prescribed drugs.
Microchip can detect type and severity of cancer
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier ...
