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Satellite weeds out nautical nemesis

June 7, 2007
Sargassum seaweed, famous in nautical folklore for entangling ships in its dense floating vegetation, has been detected from space for the first time thanks to an instrument aboard the European...

Teachers keep their cool over polar expedition

June 7, 2007
Four teachers that are to head off on an Antarctic expedition have been put through their paces at a sports science centre in preparation for their trip.

The ultimate in personal gadgetry

June 7, 2007
Personal computing, personal mp3 players and even personal medicine have all entered the public’s technology consciousness – and now an electronics giant has taken it one step further – personal...

Dont forget we also have a print edition!

June 7, 2007
Don’t forget we also have a print edition of Laboratory News – and you can get your hands on all our news, features, competitions, giveaways and information on all the...

Cosmic clock dates ancient star

June 6, 2007
Using a dating technique similar to that used in archaeology, astronomers have found a star to be almost as old as the universe its self.

Keeping it clean with chlorine

June 5, 2007
Widely used since the 1950's, with the advantage that bacteria, fungi and viruses do not build up a natural resistance to it - the disinfecting properties of chlorine dioxide could...

Government “cybrid” back down doesnt go far enough

June 4, 2007
With the announcement of the draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill, it appears that the government has yielded to scientific pressure on the use of human-animal “cybrid” embryos – but...

Designing facilities for NMR spectroscopy

June 1, 2007
More and more organisations are seeing the benefit of installing NMR facilities, a move that can present many design challenges for the buildings that house them

I fly, therefore I am…

June 1, 2007
Free will and true spontaneity – not the first thing you might think of when considering the common fruit fly. Well, one group of scientists think that we are not...

UK space giant sells to EADS

May 30, 2007
The University of Surrey is set to receive £40 - £50 million from the sale of most of its 85% stake in Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) to the aerospace and...

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