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Contemplating the benefits of a year in Space

January 14, 2013
Insight
Was the year gone by everything you hoped it would be, or would you rather have spent the entirety of 2012 in space? Two astronauts will soon get to experience...
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Get a little headspace

January 10, 2013
Feature
As the demand for biofuels grows, so does the need to ensure production remains within industry standards. Here we learn that static headspace gas chromatography is ideal to monitor emissions…The...
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A nuclear reaction: The genetic consequences for plants exposed to radiation

January 3, 2013
Feature
In light of the Fukushima 2011 nuclear disaster, Dr Eric Belfield from Oxford University describes the genome sequence research conducted by his team to understand the genetic consequences of ionizing...
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A new energy production paradigm

January 2, 2013
Insight
The gulf between science and policy has never seemed greater than at the recent UN climate summit.The talks held in Doha at the end of last year ended in the...
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Seeing is believing

December 27, 2012
Feature
With “big data” now a fundamental part of so many research projects, it’s often difficult for biologists to uncover all essential parts of their findings, says Carl-Johan Ivarsson. However, new...
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Sensors for the real world

December 21, 2012
News
New resonators for gravimetric sensing developed at the University of Cambridge negate the effect of temperature so that they may be used in numerous industries. Over the last decade there...
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The art of Science

December 18, 2012
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Take 10,000 physicists from over 600 institutions and 100 different countries around the world, place them around a 27km ring and then introduce a lone artist into their midst –...
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New armour against a post-antibiotic era

December 13, 2012
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As antibiotic resistance rises, there is a real need for new drugs to tackle this very modern problem. David Livermore takes us through the major issues surrounding antibiotic resistance and...
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Human enhancement: will the benefits outweigh the costs?

December 13, 2012
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Colossal advances in human enhancement technologies could allow us to overcome the current limits of the human body, changing the future of work for ever. But will this be harmful...
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Cooling crystals prevent computer meltdown

December 7, 2012
News
A new efficient way to pump or extract heat using crystals has been discovered by researchers at the Carnegie Institution. The crystals can pump or extract heat at nanoscales and...
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