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Did an oceanic burp end the last ice age?

July 6, 2010
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A huge and sudden belch of carbon dioxide from the depths of the ocean may have called time on the last ice age - but what does this mean for...
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Butterfly wings inspires fraud prevention

July 6, 2010
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Bank notes and credit cards could be harder to forge thanks to scientists who have discovered a way to mimic bright colours seen on the wings of tropical butterflies.
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Life on Mars?

July 5, 2010
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Huge seas once existed on Mars, and it was warmer and wetter than first thought according to new evidence from NASA instruments orbiting and exploring the red planet.
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Nanofibres spun like candyfloss

July 2, 2010
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A machine hailed as the cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a candyfloss machine could revolutionise the production of nanofibres which may have a use in the medical and textile...
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Clever larvae switch off protection mechanism

July 2, 2010
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Plants under attack from Hessian fly larva are able to protect themselves by ramping up production of surfaces waxes and cutin according to new research from Purdue University - they...
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Mammoth hunting with Alan Cooper

July 1, 2010
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Mammoths went extinct about 45,000 years ago, but a team of international scientists has succeeded in recreating the animal’s blood from DNA samples taken from bones, we find out how...Professor...
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Science and politics

June 26, 2010
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The dramatic election outcome has given the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats the chance to bring together the best bits of their manifestos on science. Leila Sattary looks back and asks...
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Beautifully educational

June 24, 2010
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During the course of research, scientists not only take images of educational value, but photographs that are as beautiful as they are informative; we take a look at some of...
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Tamiflu resistance mechanism revealed

June 24, 2010
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Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have identified the molecular changes that aided the rapid spread of a strain of the H1N1 virus resistant to the antiviral drug, Tamiflu.
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Gases and gas handling in the laboratory environment

June 24, 2010
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Stephen Harrison takes a look at how to safely handle high purity gases in the lab
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