How picking up your smartphone could reveal your identity

An identification is possible with no monitoring of conversations or behaviours within apps themselves

21-Feb-2022 - The time a person spends on different smartphone apps is enough to identify them from a larger group in more than one in three cases say researchers, who warn of the implications for security and privacy. Psychologists Dr Heather Shaw, Professor Paul Taylor and Professor Stacey Conchie from ...

A new way of rapidly counting and identifying viruses

A Lancaster University professor has introduced a new concept for rapidly analysing for the presence of a virus from colds to coronaviruses

28-Apr-2021 - Based on analysing chemical elements the methodology, which has been adapted from an analytical technique used to identify metallic nanoparticles, is able to detect the presence of viruses within just 20 seconds. Although the tests would need to be performed in a lab, it could be used to quickly ...

New breakthrough makes it easier to turn old coffee waste into cleaner biofuels

15-May-2017 - Future Americano, cappuccino and latte drinkers could help produce the raw material for a greener biofuel that would reduce our reliance on diesel from fossil fuels. Purpose-grown feedstocks (used to extract oils) for biodiesels are controversial because of their cost and the demand they place on ...

It's in our genes: Why women outlive men

06-Aug-2012 - Scientists are beginning to understand one of life's enduring mysteries - why women live, on average, longer than men. Published in Current Biology, research led by Monash University, describes how mutations to the DNA of the mitochondria can account for differences in the life expectancy of ...

Contaminant transport in the fungal pipeline

30-Jul-2012 - Fungi are found throughout the soil with giant braiding of fine threads. However, these networks have surprising functions. Only a few years ago researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) discovered that bacteria travel over the fungal threads through the labyrinth of ...

Non-invasive tool to diagnose endometriosis

22-Mar-2011 - British scientists have used infrared spectroscopy to identify biochemical differences between endometrial tissue growing outside the uterus (ectopic) and the endometrial tissue of the uterus (eutopic). They also compared the results with tissue from endometriosis-free women (benign ...