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Green light for eco-car

April 30, 2007
Motor racing, hardly an ecologically sound past time, until now that is. Scientists and engineers have developed an environmentally-friendly race car with a difference - its shell is made from...

Scientists granted £1.2m to develop atom chip

April 27, 2007
The promise of quantum computing and ultra-accurate sensors could soon be one step closer with the announcement that an EPSRC grant awarded to scientists to develop atom chip devices.

Simplifying gas handling

April 27, 2007
In terms of the hazards of gas handling most labs get most things correct most of the time, but as the implications of getting it wrong can affect the health...

Slime technology moves at a snail’s pace

April 25, 2007
A gardener’s worst nightmare they might be, but that hasn’t stopped engineers from trying to get to the bottom of what makes snail slime so special.

Immunology through the ages

April 24, 2007
Hilda Crockett, of Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics, takes us from the birth of immunology as a science to the present day

Computing in science hits 50

April 23, 2007
They represent one of the most important developments for modern science, indeed the modern world, and the impact they have had on research is almost immeasurable. It is hard to...

Study is breakthrough for dyscalculia sufferers

April 20, 2007
Scientists think they have found the area of the brain that goes wrong in people with dyscalculia - a condition that renders them unable to perform arithmetic.

Nature gives up its secrects

April 20, 2007
Back in October we told you of the advances being made by material scientists in trying to copy the amazing ability of geckos to cling to almost anything. Now, the...

Finding the ‘DNA’ of the galaxy

April 18, 2007
An international team of astronomers has used the chemical composition of stars to shed light on the formation of our Milky Way.

Going underground to go green

April 18, 2007
Carbon emissions are one of the hottest topics in science and politics today – but with an addiction to fossil fuels that looks unlikely to wain – could it be...

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