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No such thing as a safe tan

October 13, 2008
After an underwhelming summer, you may be entertaining thoughts of topping up your tan on the sun bed, but according to several new studies there may be no such thing...

Fast food set to make criminal sweat

October 13, 2008
The inventor of a new forensic fingerprinting technique claims criminals who eat processed foods are more likely to be discovered by police through their fingerprint sweat corroding metal.

Physicists tune in to big questions

October 10, 2008
In a month dominated by Cern and the study of the very small, a group of astronomers from the UK have joined an innovative project that looks at outer, rather...

Laboratory news Q&A: Sterilin

October 9, 2008
With over 40 years of laboratory product experience, Sterilin have been there, seen it and got the t-shirt. Here we hear tales of mergers and dissolutions with CEO John Adkins

How healthy is your heart?

October 9, 2008
If the answer is "not very" then myeloperoxidase can be used as a useful detector of cardiac disease

Memories are made of this

October 8, 2008
For the first time scientists have recorded individual brain cells in the act of calling up a memory, revealing where in the brain a specific memory is stored and how...

Keeping it real

October 7, 2008
Natural products are highly valued by consumers yet it has been difficult to reproduce their properties fully in synthetic materials. The key, say the NPL, is knowing how we perceive...

School in store for iPhone style desks

October 6, 2008
Schools could be set for a Star Trek make-over thanks to the development of the world’s first interactive classroom by researchers at Durham University.

Science and art set to combine for arctic trip

October 3, 2008
Science and art has come together in an expedition to monitor the sensitive and rapidly changing Arctic environment.

Reaching for legislation

October 2, 2008
The chemical industry in Europe is one of the most tightly regulated and it is set to get tighter as new legislation comes into force. Simon Robinson summarises the REACH...

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