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Climate change – has the UN got the wrong frame of mind?

November 30, 2015
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If we really want to beat global warming we have to forget emissions testing and start thinking psychologically says Dr Laurence Matthews, a recent speaker at the Scientists for Global...
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What will the lab of the future look like?

November 26, 2015
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Driven forward by improving technologies and increasing demands, the lab of the future could be markedly different in appearance from the laboratories we work in today. From incorporating 3D printing...
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From sci-fi to reality – portable analysis

November 24, 2015
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Over the years, many and varied predictions have been made regarding technological advances, with countless seemingly ‘crazy’ ideas originating in works of science fiction. Here, Stephen Tomisich discusses the inexorable...
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A most sophisticated stowaway

November 19, 2015
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Unravelling Helicobacter pylori’s gut-grabbing grip has revealed some truly unique evolutionary adaptations – including a remarkable ability to attach to gastric epithelium
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It simply isn’t cricket

November 17, 2015
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It is well-established that parasites can affect the behaviour of their hosts, but can a parasitical worm really get a cricket to shut-up? Dr Megan Wise de Valdez thinks so,...
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Taking on the unknown unknowns

November 10, 2015
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As the world looks to the UN and their meeting on climate change in Paris next month, nothing less than the fate of our future health is in the balance...
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The quantum weirdness powering biology

November 5, 2015
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It allows particles to be in two places at once, pass through impenetrable barriers or maintain spooky connections with other particles – but can quantum physics really govern biology?
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Touching the sky

October 27, 2015
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Bats are amongst the most agile of fliers – but can it really be their sense of touch which is key to this incredible ability?
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Reaching out for the origins of life

October 22, 2015
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Evidence suggests meteorites could have been an important source of the prebiotic compounds required for life on Earth. Now, after the success of ESA’s Rosetta mission, NASA are hoping to...
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Thermal analysis by structural characterisation

October 15, 2015
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We hear from thermal analysis pioneer Professor Mike Reading on a new general purpose thermal analysis technique
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Characterising the future of medicine

October 13, 2015
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Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. However, access to the expertise and methodologies required to characterise new nanomaterials is limited. Now,...
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How to make money in bio-technology’s golden era

September 29, 2015
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Professor Janice Kiely, award-winning bio-sensing pioneer and a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow, explains how biotechnology researchers can tap into the commercial value of their ideas
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