news 2011

Computer Science/Telecom - 19.04
A woman’s main focus moves off her partner once grandchildren arrive
A new study suggests that a woman's most intense relationship in her 20s is with a member of the opposite sex, but after the age of 45 this relationship shifts to a much younger female who is likely to be her daughter.

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom - 2.11.2011
Solving Einstein’s theory
A team of University researchers will get their hands on some of Europe's fastest supercomputers in a bid to crack Einstein's theory of relativity and help describe what happens when two black holes collide.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Computer Science/Telecom - 31.10.2011
Computer-based tool to improve diagnosis and prognosis for cancer patients
PA 336/11 A computer-based tool could help GPs to speed up the diagnosis and treatment of patients suffering from two of the most common forms of cancer, potentially saving thousands of lives every year.

Computer Science/Telecom - Medicine/Pharmacology - 28.09.2011
Study to investigate new treatment for lazy eye
Researchers are seeking children with amblyopia — also known as lazy eye — for a study investigating potential new treatments for the condition. The team from University of Notingham is looking for children (age 5-12 yrs), for research exploring whether computer-based visual tasks can help to improve vision in the weak eye.

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom - 3.08.2011
Dramatic simplification paves the way for building a quantum computer
An international research group has demonstrated a new technique that dramatically simplifies quantum circuits, bringing quantum computers closer to reality. Xiao-Qi Zhou and colleagues at the University of Bristol's Centre for Quantum Photonics and the University of Queensland, Australia, have shown that controlled operations ‘ ones that are implemented on the condition that a 'control bit' is in the state 1 - can be dramatically simplified compared to the standard approach.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Computer Science/Telecom - 7.07.2011
Chips hold the key to understanding the human brain
University of Manchester scientists have taken a key step towards producing a high-performance computer which aims to create working models of human brain functions. Chips based on ARM processor technology will be linked together to simulate the highly-complex workings of the brain, whose functionality derives from networks of billions of interacting, highly-connected neurons.

Literature/Linguistics - Computer Science/Telecom - 22.06.2011
Database explains strange survival of irregular verbs
An historical study of the development of irregular verbs in the hundreds of Romance languages including French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Catalan has revealed how these structures survive.

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom - 14.04.2011
LOFAR takes the pulse of the radio sky
A powerful new telescope is allowing an international team led by University of Manchester scientists to have their “best-ever look” at pulsars – rapidly rotating neutron stars created when massive stars die.

Computer Science/Telecom - Life Sciences - 16.12.2010
FReD helps explain how a bee sees
FReD helps explain how a bee sees Researchers have developed a database that shows how colours appear to bees - News Adapted from a news release issued by Queen Mary, University of London Thursday 16 December 2010 Bees can see colours but they perceive the world differently to us, including variations in hue that we cannot distinguish with the naked eye.

Computer Science/Telecom - Electroengineering/Microtechnics - 15.11.2010
‘Space-time cloak’ to conceal events revealed in new study
‘Space-time cloak' to conceal events revealed in new study Cloak allows objects to move undetected, according to a paper in the Journal of Optics - News release Scientists have developed a recipe for manipulating the speed of light as it passes over an object, making it theoretically possible to ‘cloak‘ the object's movement so that an observer doesn't notice, according to a paper in the Journal of Optics .

Computer Science/Telecom - Mathematics - 20.07.2010
’The friend of my enemy is my enemy’: Virtual universe study proves 80 year old theory on how humans interact
A new study analysing interactions between players in a virtual universe game has for the first time provided large-scale evidence to prove an 80 year old psychological theory called Structural Balance Theory.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Computer Science/Telecom - 23.06.2010
No link between early childhood cancers and living near mobile phone base station during pregnancy, says study
No link between early childhood cancers and living near mobile phone base station during pregnancy, says study A new study finds no association between a mother living near to a mobile phone base station during her pregnancy and the risk of that child developing cancer before reaching the age of five - News A new study looking at th

Medicine/Pharmacology - Computer Science/Telecom - 21.04.2010
Health impacts of mobile phone use to be explored in huge new study
A new decades-long study launches today to investigate whether there is a link between the use of mobile phones and long-term health problems such as cancer. The cohort study on mobile communications (COSMOS) forms part of the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Computer Science/Telecom - 16.04.2009
Relatively low dietary intake of vitamins A and C boosts asthma risk
PA 106/09 A relatively low dietary intake of vitamins A and C boosts the risk of asthma, suggests a systematic analysis of the available evidence published ahead of print in the journal Thorax. These findings clash with a large review of the evidence, which was published last year.