Over the past 30 years, cancer control measures have led to rising life expectancy in rich populations, but these gains have yet to be seen in poorer populations, according to a study in the British Medical Journal
The evidence that cognitive training, blood pressure management and increased physical activity might slow cognitive decline and the onset of dementia is encouraging but insufficient to justify a public health campaign focused on their adoption, according to a new report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
A European network has been created to bring the power of numbers to uncovering the causes of sudden cardiac arrest and compare outcomes of different treatments
Whole genome sequencing involving the analysis of all three billion pairs of letters in an individual’s DNA has been hailed as a technology that will usher in a new era of predicting and preventing disease
Former WTO chief Pascal Lamy sets out a wide range of ideas to reform EU research and innovation programmes, starting a yearlong campaign to secure the future research budget
By utilizing terahertz waves in electronics, future data traffic can get a big boost forward. So far, the terahertz (THz) frequency has not been optimally applied to data transmission, but by using graphene, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have come one step closer to a possible paradigm shift for the electronic industry
Former chair of the US House of Representatives science committee Bart Gordon shares lessons he learned from setting up the innovation funding body ARPA-E, to promote advanced energy projects
EU research chief Robert-Jan Smits talks about the priorities for 2018 – 2020, getting the European Innovation Council off the ground and the changes coming in Framework Programme 9
EU research chief Robert-Jan Smits talks about the priorities for 2018 – 2020, getting the European Innovation Council off the ground and the changes coming in Framework Programme 9
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