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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...

Smell wired to spatial information

July 2, 2015
Scientists have discovered that humans can map a location by using only their sense of smell. A research team at the University of California in Berkley designed a smell-only experiment...

Ultracold molecules hint at quantum behaviour

June 30, 2015
By achieving the lowest temperature ever recorded, scientists have managed to create ultracold molecules which seem to exist in exotic state.  A research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Elusive magnetospheric plasma tubes finally recorded

June 26, 2015
After 60 years of research, astronomers have finally observed structures of plasma – one of the four fundamental states of matter – in the magnetosphere. Scientists at the University of...

Funding for industrial biotechnology and biofilms

June 26, 2015
Innovate UK has announced that applications for business funding from the Industrial Biotechnology Catalyst – worth £34 million – are now open. Another £2.5 million was also announced for business-led...

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