Helping people suffering from brain disordersScientists at Keele University have been awarded funding from The British Heart Foundation (BHF) to help patients suffering from a debilitating brain disorder.Led by Dr Ruoli Chen, the researchers are investigating a potential new treatment for vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) – a disorder of the mind...

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 Driven by human influence, environmental change is accelerating. We explore sustainable solutions for a more resilient future. Human life is having a lasting influence on the earth's landscapes, ecosystems and environments. Population growth places increased demands on global natural resources and coincides with increasing stresses on environ...

 Meadows filled with flowers, a rich North Sea, a green residential area... The concept of biodiversity is receiving increasing attention. It often features in discussions about climate, farming and housing. But what does it really mean? Why is biodiversity important and how can we protect it? We study these and similar questions at Wageningen...

 With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates due to climate change, invertebrates that live in the cold meltwater rivers of the Alps will face widespread habitat loss, warn researchers.Many of the species are likely to become restricted to cold habitats that will only persist higher in the mountains, and these areas are also likely to see pre...

 Launched by an Ariane 5 rocket, the European Space Agency's JUICE probe was launched from Kourou in French Guiana. This is an important new space mission to study Jupiter and its moons, to which researchers from the University of Liège and the Centre Spatial de Liège (CSL) have made and will continue to make a significant contribution.Started...

 Study is first to document reefwide dynamics of viruses that infect coral symbiontsThe breathtaking colors of reef-building corals come from photosynthetic algae that live inside the corals. A groundbreaking three-year study has found that viruses may increase their attacks on these symbiotic algae during marine heat waves.Few studies have ex...

 Swinburne's Aerostructures Innovation Research Hub – AIRHub - is an advanced development collaboration between industry and research.The AIR Hub is embracing digitisation to develop intelligent manufacturing processes, using advanced composite materials to design and produce innovative aerostructures.Structures that are lighter, stronger and ...

 For nearly two decades, astrophysicists have believed that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) resulted solely from the collapse of massive stars. Now, a new study upends that long-established and long-accepted belief.Led by Northwestern University, a team of astrophysicists has uncovered new evidence that at least some long GRBs can result from neu...

Western's Emily Adlam talks theories of time on The Conversation's podcast "Great Mysteries of Physics".  Without a sense of time, leading us from cradle to grave, our lives would make little sense. But on the most fundamental level, physicists aren't sure whether the sort of time we experience exists at all.This is the topic of the first...

New techniques can be used to answer questions that were previously inaccessible experimentally - including questions about the connection between quanta and the theory of relativity.The theory of relativity works great for explaining cosmic-scale phenomena, such as the gravitational waves produced when black holes collide. Quantum theory works gre...

Novel cancer test that addresses unmet needs in prostate cancer management is now available for commercialisationOncoAssure today announced that results of its clinical study validating OncoAssure Prostate, a novel test for prostate cancer management, have been published in European Urology Focus, a peer-reviewed and open access journal. OncoAssure...

 Addressing one of the most profoundly unanswered questions in biology, a Rutgers-led team has discovered the structures of proteins that may be responsible for the origins of life in the primordial soup of ancient Earth.The study appears in the journal Science Advances.The researchers explored how primitive life may have originated on our pla...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is on the cusp of driving an agricultural revolution, and helping confront the challenge of feeding our growing global population in a sustainable way. But researchers warn that using new AI technologies at scale holds huge risks that are not being considered. Imagine a field of wheat that extends to the horizon, b...

 A team of researchers from the Catalysis Institute at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and integrated energy and chemical company Sasol have made advancements in the use of commercial iron catalyst, produced cheaply and at large‑scale at Sasol's Secunda plant, which will enable conversion of unavoidable or biogenically derived carbon dioxide...

 A team of Japanese astronomers used simultaneous ground-based and space-based observations to capture a more complete picture of a superflare on a star. The observed flare started with a very massive, high-velocity prominence eruption. These results give us a better idea of how superflares and stellar prominence eruptions occur.Some stars hav...

 Mines' Ryan Venturelli led the new study, published in AGU Advances, that constrained the Antarctic subglacial carbon cycle for the first timeThe West Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting rapidly, raising concerns it could cross a tipping point of irreversible retreat in the next few decades if global temperatures rise 1.5 to 2.0 degrees Celsius (2...

 In a world-first, Western Sydney University and the United States Air Force Academy have successfully received neuromorphic data sent from space after launching ground-breaking neuromorphic cameras on the International Space Station (ISS).Developed and built by the University's International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS), the space-b...

 Cassowaries continue to be one of nature's most critical gardeners, with a new study into seed dispersal through their scats reaffirming their role in the ecological function of pockets of remnant rainforests.The study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU) explored whether the southern cassowary remains important to native seed dispersal in ...

 When thinking of renewable energy sources, it is often solar or wind that spring to mind first – but what about ocean energy?The ocean covers more than 70 per cent of the earth's surface – providing enormous potential for renewable and clean energy. Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) researchers hope to unlock this potential.In a paper pu...