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6 July 2010: Empa researchers have demonstrated how they can adjust process conditions to influence the properties of novel plasma polymer coatings containing silver nanoparticles. Tailor-made films can be generated through a one-step plasma process. The scientists developed these new coatings, which kill bacteria while having no negative effect on human tissue, in the frame of an EU project. Read more

18 June 2010: Lower back pain is not a reason to stay in bed. Read more

10 June 2010: The amount of time teenagers spend in front of TV screens and monitors has been associated with physical complaints. Read more

29 April 2010: Baby swimmers have better balance and are also better at grasping at things than non-swimmers. This difference persists even when children are five years old, when babies who have been taught to swim still outperform their peers. Read more

21 April 2010: A breeding orchid creates a new perfume irresistible to bees. Read more

18 April 2010: Early detection of Parkinson’s disease by voice analysis. Read more

13 April 2010: A prosthodontist from Egypt is helping Lehigh researchers develop bioactive glass that mimics the behavior of living tissue. Read more

12 April 2010: We are born copies, but die originals. Read more

11 April 2010: Baby stars in the Rosette Cloud. Herschel’s latest image reveals the formation of previously unseen large stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our Sun. These are the stars that will influence where and how the next generation of stars are formed. Read more

11 April 2010: Researchers from the University of Valencia (UV) discover empathy and violence have similar circuits in the brain. Read more

9 April 2010: Can kidney regeneration behave in humans as it does in fish? Read more

9 April 2010: Areas of the deep ocean with Oxygen-minimum zones (OMZs) are threatened by climate change. Read more

9 April 2010: ESA has awarded a contract to Eurockot for the launch of two of its Earth observation missions. The first will be the next Earth Explorer: Swarm, a constellation of three satellites to study Earth's magnetic field. Read more

8 April 2010: PhD Opportunities in Robotics in Europe. Read more

7 April 2010: A simple cotton T-shirt may one day be converted into tougher, more comfortable body armor for soldiers or police officers. Read more

06 April 2010: Carbon nanotubes show signs of breaking down biologically according to Swedish and American scientists using an enzyme found in white blood cells. Read more

6 April 2010: A vaccine against the tapeworm Taenia solium has eliminated transmission of the parasite in pigs in a field trial in Africa. Read more

31 March 2010: Why the Earth's Surface Was Not One Big Lump of Ice Four Billion Years Ago When Sun Radiation Was Much Weaker Than Today Read more

30 March 2010 : Europe's ice-monitoring project gets a second chance after 2005 launch mishap. CryoSat-2 will help scientists hoping to understand how polar ice is reacting to climate change and how sea leaves may rise as a result. Read more.

16 March 2010: Scientists stretch quantum scales - A German-Spanish collaboration plans to use quantum mechanics (the study of small, inanimate objects such as single atoms) to identify quantum properties in larger and more complex objects made up of tens of millions of atoms, including the flu virus. Read more

18 February 2010: EU-funded researchers in Belgium uncover origins of skin cancer. Read more

18 February 2010: Accurate sperm counts chip developed at the University of Twente's MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Netherlands. Read more

28 January 2010: University of the Basque study suggests men feel less guilt. Read more

21 January 2010: Research from the University of Denmark contributes to our understanding of why eating apples is good for you. Read more

11 January 2010: Israeli study explains why light worsens migraine headaches. Read more

7 January 2010: Swedish study uncovers costs of drug resistance for bacteria. Read more

14 December 2009: Engineers at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands, have devised a system that learns users' behaviour patterns. Read more

9 December 2009: A new study from the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London refutes the preconception that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. Read more

2 December 2009: Pork meat grown in the laboratory at Eindhoven University, The Netherlands. Read more

30 November 2009: A Dutch researcher has discovered a new way to package enzymes by causing charged polymers to form a 'ball of hair' around them. Read more

24 November 2009: Upending textbook science on Alzheimer's disease, at Tel Aviv University. Read more

24 November 2009: Harnessing the power of salt, Norway tries osmotic power. Read more

23 November 2009: A team of Norwegian and Dutch researchers have shown how gamma waves give clue to information processing in brain. Read more

18 November 2009: Folic acid supplements raise cancer risk, say Norwegian researchers. Read more

16 November 2009: A team of partly EU-funded researchers from Spain have gained new insights into the physiology of cockroaches. Read more

10 November 2009: Blood test identifies women at risk from Alzheimer's says thesis from University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Read more

9 November 2009: Dutch scientists have developed a new technology to enable up to 25 per cent reduction of salt in food products. Read more

6 November 2009: Eating quickly is associated with overeating, study from Laiko General Hospital in Athens Greece indicates. Read more

5 November 2009: Use of cannabinoids could help post-traumatic stress disorder patients, says the University of Haifa. Read more

30 October 2009: Call to establishing research teams in Polish scientific institutions. Read more

29 October 2009: A research team in Sweden has developed a breakthrough vaccine for the highly contagious horse disease strangles. Read more

28 October 2009: A team of Norwegian researchers found that maps are created by the brain and are then 'stitched' together, allowing for navigation with the minimum of effort. Read more

27 October 2009: Violence between couples is usually calculated, and does not result from loss of control, Haifa study suggests. Read more

27 October 2009: Researchers at the University of Oxford and Copenhagen University say testicular tumors may explain why some diseases are more common in children of older fathers. Read more

22 October 2009: Developed by researchers in Sweden and Italy, the Smart Hand prosthesis has the sense of touch. Read more

21 October 2009: Hebrew University of Jerusalem develops novel nanotechnology for revolutionizing imaging using T-rays. Read more

21 October 2009: A Canada-Spain research collaboration has developed a new method to trap and study tiny, active objects like viruses without inflicting any damage. Read more

19 October 2009: A team of Belgian and German scientists has for the first time successfully mapped the full inventory of proteins in yeast mitochondria. Read more

14 October 2009: Swedish court overturns landmark file sharing ruling. Read more

12 October 2009: Swedish and German researchers have demonstrated a more robust broadband for wireless internet transmission. Read more

7 October 2009: Consuming a Mediterranean-style diet may prevent depression, according to a new study from Spain. Read more

7 October 2009: Scientists in Switzerland have identified a new neural circuit in the retina responsible for the detection of approaching objects. Read more

5 October 2009: Researchers in The Netherlands show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. Read more

2 October 2009: Breast milk should be drunk at the same time of day that it is expressed says study at University of Extremadura, Spain. Read more

30 September 2009: Researchers from the University of Leicester and the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Portugal have discovered that vitamin C can be used to treat wounds and protect skin cells from DNA damage. Read more

28 September 2009: New Finnish research shows ways to predict violent behavior? Read more

28 September 2009: Enzyme modification developed at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, can protect people and environment. Read more

24 September 2009: Depression and anxiety disorders of adolescents are not the same thing, according to a study at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Read more

24 September 2009: A killer fungus may break the chemical stalemate that is hampering anti-malaria efforts, from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Read more

23 September 2009: Swedish scientists have discovered a significant difference in the structure and expression of genes that control human cell energy consumption between type 2 diabetes sufferers and healthy people. Read more

18 September 2009: The European Respiratory Society (ERS) has awarded NZer Dr. Benjamin John Marsland this year`s annual award for research in the field of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Read more

16 September 2009: A team of researchers based in Oslo, Norway found supervised exercises are more effective than shockwave treatment to relieve chronic shoulder pain. Read more

16 September 2009: Swedish researchers have developed a flexible battery made of two inexpensive materials, cellulose and salt. Read more

15 September 2009: A Zurich research team has found natural endocannabinoids, closely related to active ingredients in cannabis plant, can promote pain. Read more

14 September 2009: A team at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland has demonstrated broadband cloaking of cylindrical objects in the microwave regime. Read more

14 September 2009: Scientists in Madrid, have discovered two proteins that control when and how stem cells switch to being skin cells. Read more

11 September 2009: Researchers from Romania and France are investigating whether tunable resistors, capacitors or inductors can be printed using inkjet technology on normal office paper designed for laserjet printing. Read more

11 September 2009: Physicists from Germany and Spain propose 'Schrödinger's virus' experiment. Read more

11 September 2009: A team led from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark used Chromium isotopes track oxygen's rise. Read more

11 September 2009: Researchers at Uppsala University, Sweden, have discovered that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of an algae can serve as an effective coating substrate for use in environmentally friendly batteries. Read more

10 September 2009: Researchers at the University of Leicester and Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Portugal studied new protective properties of vitamin C in cells from the human skin. Read more

10 September 2009: Chemists from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have found that because the Sun was 30% weaker then than it is now, a greenhouse gas , Carbonyl sulphide, was able to keep the Earth from becoming a ball of ice 2,500 million years ago. Read more

9 September 2009: A research group from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), Spain, has developed a biosensor that can immediately detect very low levels of Salmonella typhi. Read more

7 September 2009: Newly discovered eye cells, in research at the Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, can warn us that an object is coming nearer, and do so without the brain's help. Read more

4 September 2009: Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have been studying the prey capture techniques of two ambush-feeding species of copepods by means of high-speed video. Read more

4 September 2009: The zero-calorie sweetener erythritol may exert a strong antioxidant activity which may protect vascular health of diabetics, says a new study from The Netherlands. Read more

4 September 2009: Women and men with thighs under 60 cm in circumference face a far higher risk of premature death and heart disease, according to a study at Copenhagen University Hospital. Read more

4 September 2009: Astronomers from INAF-IASF Milan, Italy have announced the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular kind of supernova in a few million years. Read more

3 September 2009: Foundation for Polish Science opportunities for research. Read more

3 September 2009: The place and the point in time when dogs first emerged have been identified, claim researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Read more

2 September 2009: A study from the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden, cautioned that the commercial breeding of GM fish should be approached with caution on fears they could pose a health risk to humans and threaten natural breeds. Read more

1 September 2009: Wild varieties of lupin seeds could be tapped for their high quality protein content, report researchers in Spain, and could reduce the need to import soybean. Read more

1 September 2009: We may be underestimating the antioxidant content of fruit and vegetables, according to an international team of scientists from Spain and the UK. Read more

28 August 2009: Italian researchers who tested supermarket-bought red and white wines report both were effective in controlling the growth of bacteria that cause tooth decay and sore throats. Read more

27 August 2009: A clinic at the University of Khartoum plans to offer in vitro fertilisation to couples for less than $300, a fraction of its cost in the west.The clinic is one of three funded by the Low Cost IVF Foundation (LCIF) of Massagno, Switzerland. Read more

29 June 2009: To make Croatian science and education the most competitive in Eastern Europe by 2010, major reforms have been undertaken in the past 4 years. Read more

29 June 2009: More than half of all deaths of people of working age in Russia are caused by alcohol. Read more

23 June 2009: Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands, Russia. Read more

18 June 2009: Russian scientists found connection between Alzheimer's disease and the sense of smell. Read more

18 June 2009: A new type of ‘laser’ for generating ultra-high frequency sound waves, instead of light, has taken a major step towards becoming a unique and highly useful 21st century technology. Read more

15 June 2009: Newly discovered snow roots are 'evolutionary phenomenon'. In a remote region of the Russian mountains a previously unknown and entirely unique form of plant root has been discovered. Read more

9 June 2009: In what could be a breakthrough in animal breeding, a team of scientists from Germany, Russia and Sweden has discovered a set of genetic regions responsible for animal tameness. Read more

9 June 2009: When mobbing predators, Siberian jays use over a dozen different calls to communicate the level of danger and predator category to other members of their own group. The evolved call systems are as sophisticated as those of primates and meerkats. Read more

4 June 2009: A million-year-old mammoth skeleton found in Serbia. The finely preserved skeleton is believed to be one million years old. Read more

29 May 2009: Scientists return from an expedition to drill beneath a frozen Lake in Siberia: Lake El'gygytgyn which was created 3.6 million years ago when a meteor more than a half-mile wide hit Earth and formed an 11-mile wide crater. Read more

6 May 2009: A 25-year old astronomical mystery has been solved: Most of the diffuse X-ray emissions in the Milky Way do not originate from one single source but from so-called white dwarfs and from stars with active outer gas layers. Read more

5 May 2009: Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change. Read more

5 May 2009: Fossil magnetism helps prove mass extinction theory. Were major extinction events real biological catastrophes or were they merely the result of gaps in the fossil record? A team of geologists from the UK and Russia has shed new light on it. Read more

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