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Big leap into Neptune’s magnetic field

July 17, 2015
By combining 26-year old data with supercomputer simulations, scientists have modelled Neptune’s magnetic field in detail. Astronomers at Imperial College London used the data from Voyager 2 and discovered that...

Grant for new life science facility agreed

July 17, 2015
An enterprise partnership has announced a grant worth £6.5 million towards a new life sciences complex in Nottingham. The grant will be added to support the project’s costs. The facility...

Pluto’s ice secrets revealed

July 16, 2015
Images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have revealed an abundance of methane ice on Pluto. Mission scientists studied infrared spectral images of Pluto taken by the Ralph instrument on board...

‘Drug Discovery Booster’ for neglected diseases

July 16, 2015
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and four pharmaceutical companies have announced a consortium to accelerate drug discovery for two of the world's most neglected diseases. The consortium –...

NASA’s probe reaches Pluto

July 15, 2015
After more than nine years and a 3 billion mile journey, NASA’s New Horizon mission spacecraft has made its closest approach to Pluto. The probe captured the most detailed images...

New particle discovered at the LHC

July 15, 2015
Physicists at CERN have discovered a new class of particles known as pentaquarks. A research team at the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider examined the decay of a...

New Director for ESA

July 15, 2015
Johann-Dietrich Woerner is the new Director General of The European Space Agency (ESA). Mr Woerner – former chief of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center – has taken...

First UK centre for evolution research gets private donation

July 10, 2015
The University of Bath has received £5 million to create the first UK centre for evolution research. The funding – donated by Dr Jonathan Milner who graduated at University of...

Birth month and disease risk related

July 8, 2015
Scientists have discovered a relationship between birth month and disease risk in New York. A research team at Columbia University used a medical database from New York City and found...

Top physics prize awarded to Professor Yablonovitch

July 7, 2015
The Institute of Physics has awarded its’ highest International award – the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize – to Professor Eli Yablonovitch for his work on photonic crystals. Professor Yablonovitch...

Greek academics cut off from publishers

July 3, 2015
By failing to maintain payments, Greek universities and research institutes will no longer have access to scholarly publishers. As a result of the Greek crisis, the system Hellenic Academic Libraries...

£8.5 million for climate change research

July 3, 2015
NERC has announced £8.5 million for research on climate change and its effects.  The funding – part of NERC’s large grants scheme – was awarded to three projects to support...

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