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UK team develop swarming robots

April 18, 2008
A new project is to investigate how swarms of miniature robots can work and evolve together.

Nature takes it by a nose

April 17, 2008
While traditional electronic sensing methods may have reached their limit, rapid advances in molecular biology and genetics have energised the field of artificial olfaction, says Rebecca Simpson. By borrowing from...

Safe guarding Earth’s data

April 16, 2008
The amount of information being generated about our planet is increasing at an exponential rate but, say the European Space Agency, it must be easily accessible in order to apply...

Broadening your small molecule horizons

April 15, 2008
The capabilities offered by new generations of high performance TOF and TOF/TOF mass spectrometers open up a breadth of new research and applied market opportunities for the analysis of small...

Is a cup of tea the answer to everything – even anthrax?

April 14, 2008
A new study by an international team of researchers has revealed how the humble cup of tea could well be an antidote to Bacillus anthracis – more commonly know as...

Astro-amino acids suggest life fell from the stars

April 11, 2008
The theory of panspermia - that life on planets like Earth and Mars was seeded from space - has received a boost as scientists claim to have found amino acids...

Running on auto

April 11, 2008
Diagnosis is of course key to any treatment regime – and the use of autoantibodies as the basis of clinical assays is becoming more understood. Here we learn how serum...

A bridge too far

April 10, 2008
Small sample size is a problem often encountered in laboratory life, but scientists at the National Physical Laboratory have tackled an altogether different problem with their biggest sample yet –...

Planet hunters score a perfect 10

April 10, 2008
The discovery of 10 new planets has been announced at the Royal Astronomical Society’s largest ever National Astronomy Meeting.

Caffeine helps brain fight cholesterol

April 10, 2008
Scientists have given those that like a morning doughnut every now and then a top tip for countering some of the affects of cholesterol - have it with a nice...

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