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Gold nanorods to cook cancer from within

January 9, 2012
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Chemists in America have loaded more than 2 million gold nanorods into a single cancer cell in a breakthrough that could see the particles used as tiny heating elements to...
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Supercooling water

January 6, 2012
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Water can reach temperatures as low as -48°C before it absolutely must freeze say researchers in America, who believe their work may have important implications for the global climate.Chemists from...
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Can’t see the wood for the trees?

January 5, 2012
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Norwegian and German scientists have developed a method to better interpret brain cell signals in a forest of neurons.Researchers hope their method could lead to considerable steps forward in terms...
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Buttercup glow

January 5, 2012
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Spring is fast approaching and children will soon be waving buttercups under your chin to see if you like butter – but what causes their unique yellow glow?Scientists from the...
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Twin probes in lunar orbit

January 5, 2012
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NASA rang in the new year with the successful arrival of twin probes designed to study the Moon from crust to core.Grail-B probe entered lunar orbit on 1st January after...
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Piecing together quality and compliance

January 5, 2012
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Julian Rutherford explains that quality assurance and compliance need not be two separate entitiesAll too often, issues of quality assurance and compliance are viewed as a paperwork exercise to demonstrate...
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Glassblowing with Paul Le Pinnet

January 5, 2012
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Award-winning glassblower Paul Le Pinnet, renowned for skilfully moulding molten glass into intricate shapes for cutting-edge lab experiments, has been honoured for his work. Scientific glassblowing is highly specialised and...
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New test for Conn’s disease

January 4, 2012
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By combining positron emission tomography (PET) with x-ray computer tomography (CT), researchers hope to detect small benign tumours which cause hypertension.Research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the...
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COSHH and the human touch

January 3, 2012
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Roger Gibbs exposes the three commons myths behind implementing COSHH in the workplace and discovers that while modern technology is important human input is still vitalThe Control of Substances Hazardous...
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Nature provides pre-earthquake cues

January 2, 2012
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The earth provides early warning signs of impending quakes say two groups of researchers who have been studying ozone emissions from fracturing rocks, and a colony of toads.Dr Rachel Grant...
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