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Cooking up the perfect plastic

November 14, 2011
Scientists have solved a long-standing problem that could revolutionise the way plastics are developed with a high-tech recipe book for cooking up the perfect plastic. The breakthrough – made by...

Nanoantenna splits light

November 11, 2011
Swedish scientists have developed a nanoantenna that can act as a router for red and blue light, even though the antenna is smaller than the wavelength of light. The finding...

Revival of the Chemistry Set

November 10, 2011
Hard core A-levels are back in fashion, with a revival in students wanting to study chemistry Only five years ago the sense of despair among the chemistry teaching community in...

Glow in the dark brains

November 10, 2011
Glioblastoma is one of the common and most harmful primary malignant brain tumours in adults, and making the tumours glow in the dark could enable surgeons to remove it more...

Real-life Scrat unearthed

November 10, 2011
The animators of Ice Age might not have been too far off the mark when the created the loveable sabre-toothed squirrel Scrat. Researchers from the University of Louisville have unearthed...

Smartphone set for space

November 10, 2011
Scientists in Surrey have been developing a nanosatellite on a shoestring budget – their smartphone-controlled satellite will be launched next year. Researchers from the Surrey Space Centre and engineers at...

Cholesterol key to ‘sneaky’ HIV weakness

November 9, 2011
Removing cholesterol from the membrane surrounding the HIV virus could point to a new method of preventing the virus from damaging the immune system. Researchers from Imperial College London and...

Solving the mystery of human spontaneous combustion

November 8, 2011
After a recent case of death by spontaneous combustion Brian J Ford proposes a new theory for why a human might suddenly burst into flames The demise of Mr Michael...

What a difference a D20 makes

November 7, 2011
Water is one of the simplest and most abundant chemicals on the planet, but scientists are still working to unlock its secrets, including understanding its true structure. An international collaboration...

Research leads to TV gold

November 4, 2011
There’s nothing worse for the telly addicts amongst us than sitting down to watch TV and getting an awful glare off the screen, but a simple layer of gold could...

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