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Stop traffic crashes: Switch on the lights
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Street lighting provides a simple, low cost means of stemming the global epidemic of road traffic death and injury. Low income countries should consider installing more lights, and high income countries should think carefully ...
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Research puts police gun detectors a step closer
Jun 09, 2009 |
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The new technology - being designed by Newcastle, Manchester Metropolitan and Queen Mary universities - uses electro magnetic waves in order to pick up 'reflections' from concealed guns, gun barrels or knives without the ...
Carrots cooked whole contain more anti-cancer compound
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Chopping up your carrot after it has been cooked boosts its anti-cancer properties by 25 per cent, scientists at Newcastle University have found. The study, carried out by Newcastle University’s Dr Kirsten Brandt and researcher ...
Scientists explore new window on the origins of life
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The remarkable behaviour of bacteria that have been forced to live without their protective wall has allowed Newcastle University scientists to open a new window on the origins of life on earth.
Puffins to be fitted with 'sat nav' to monitor decline
Jul 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Newcastle University are using GPS technology in an effort to understand a worrying decline in the numbers of Puffins. In the last five years the numbers of the sea birds has plummeted aroun ...
Got a pain? -- Have a cup of Brazilian mint
Nov 24, 2009 |
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For thousands of years it has been prescribed by traditional healers in Brazil to treat a range of ailments from headaches and stomach pain to fever and flu.
Electronic voting system tested by Newcastle University
May 14, 2008 |
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An electronic vote capture and counting system, designed to overcome the problems which have dogged computerised voting systems throughout the world, notably the touch screen voting machines in the US and pilot schemes run ...
Names give cows a lotta bottle
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A cow with a name produces more milk than one without, scientists at Newcastle University have found. Drs Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson have shown that by giving a cow a name and treating ...
New brain link as cause of schizophrenia
Oct 27, 2008 |
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A lack of specific brain receptors has been linked with schizophrenia in new research by scientists at Newcastle University.
Anti-cancer agent could be used to prevent premature birth
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Trichostatin A, an agent initially investigated in the laboratory as a possible cancer therapy, has been shown to inhibit contractions in muscle from the uterus and could have a role in preventing premature ...
Veterinary researchers study poultry virus as human cancer treatment
Feb 12, 2008 |
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Researchers on the Blacksburg and College Park, Md., campuses of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine have been awarded a major new grant from the National Institutes of Health to support innovative ...
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