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Sanofi’s Dagenham plant sold to SOG for regeneration

December 29, 2014
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The future of the former Sanofi manufacturing plant in Dagenham has been secured following an agreement with regeneration specialists SOG Group. The Group has purchased the east London site for...
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Shrinking sensor means faster, more accurate results

December 23, 2014
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A novel sensor that has miniaturised optical emission spectrometers could make the analysis of gold and steel more precise and less time consuming. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic...
Materials
Materials Science
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Asynt’s PressureSyn voted most innovative at Lab Innovations

December 18, 2014
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Chemical technologies company Asynt fought off strong competition to be voted winners at this year’s Lions Lair at Lab Innovations. The Cambridge-based firm successfully persuaded the Lions that their PressureSyn...
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Solving the vanadium dioxide conundrum

December 18, 2014
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Researchers have shed new light on a long standing conundrum in condensed-matter physics by combining electron microscopy and laser spectroscopy in novel ways.Vanadium dioxide has intrigued the scientific community since...
Physics & Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics, Physics
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X-ray absorption reveals water structure mystery

December 12, 2014
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A new twist on x-ray absorption spectroscopy has allowed American scientists to reveal the molecular structure of water at gold electrodes. When a solid is immersed in liquid, the liquid...
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Physics
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AMS shows modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

December 11, 2014
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Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been revealed using an improved accelerator mass spectrometry technique.Researchers from the University of Oxford dated over...
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Biological Sciences, Paleobiology
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A fault with the origin of life

December 10, 2014
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New research has shown that deep-reaching interconnected fault systems provide the right conditions for the origin of life.The fluid mixture in the system, consisting of water, carbon dioxide and other...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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A corker of an infrared spectroscopy study…

December 5, 2014
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Researchers have employed infrared spectroscopy techniques to determine how a cork might perform in a wine bottle. A team from the Universidad Politéchnica de Madrid, INIA-CIFOR and the Universidad de...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Beverage
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Microbullet hits confirm graphene’s strength

December 2, 2014
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Scientists at Rice University have developed a technique to fire microbullets at graphene sheets to show that multilayer graphene – 10 to 100 nm thick – may make excellent body...
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Materials Science
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Early detection of liver disease ‘non-existent’

November 28, 2014
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Leading medical experts have warned that early detection of liver disease by GPs in the UK is “virtually non-existent”.A group of doctors and researchers have published a report in The...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology
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New particles found as CERN make data publicly available

November 28, 2014
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CERN has announced that the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has found two new particles in the baryon family. The organisation – celebrating its 60th anniversary –...
Physics & Engineering
Particle Physics, Physics
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Treating cancer by draining its fuel tank

November 28, 2014
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Mitochondria fuelled by related proteins are key to promoting the proliferative expansion and survival of cancer stem cells. Draining their fuel could form the basis of new ways of treating...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Oncology
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