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Celebrities versus science

March 16, 2012
Insight
Celebrity endorsement is worth big bucks – it’s hard to watch TV without seeing a celebrity advertising the latest make up, sports equipment or holiday destination. But what happens when...
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Why spiders don’t stick to their own web

March 15, 2012
News
If you walk into a spider’s web, you generally get it stuck all over you, but spiders don’t stick to their own webs and researchers in America think they know...
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New sensor inspired by origami

March 15, 2012
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Inspired by origami – the Japanese art of paper folding – American chemists have developed a point-of-care sensor that could diagnose malaria and HIV in the developing world for less...
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Rules for TV scientists

March 15, 2012
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Glamorous, sexy and brilliant – the TV scientist of today is an all-round hero, but as our babbler-in-chief Russ Swan has discovered, there are still a few rules even they...
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Taking a numerical approach to fMRI

March 15, 2012
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging only gives us a glimpse of what’s going on in the brain. Researchers from the University of Oxford have modified the technique to provide a full...
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Food crops damaged by continent-travelling pollution

March 14, 2012
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Europe loses 1.2 million tonnes of wheat a year because of man-made air pollution sweeping across the continent from North America says a new study from the Universities of Leeds...
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Finding the perfect GC-MS

March 13, 2012
Feature
Environmental analysis laboratories face many challenges relating to sample preparation, analysis and efficient data reporting – but how do you choose the most appropriate GC-MS technology to suit individual analysis...
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Next generation solar cells

March 12, 2012
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A new type of solar cell that generates two electrons from every photon absorbed has the potential to increase the maximum efficiency of solar panels by over 25%.Researchers from the...
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‘Goldilocks’ gene dictates TB response

March 9, 2012
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A ‘Goldilocks’ gene that dictates whether your response to tuberculosis is ‘too much, ‘too little’ or ‘just right’ may determine the best treatment for the disease.An international team of researchers...
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A very strange tail indeed

March 9, 2012
Insight
Fermat’s last theorem and the Poincaré conjecture – just two of the great mathematical problems that have tested and teased humanity’s love affair with numbers for generations. And it is...
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