Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle
October 3, 2014
Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT have engineered the bacteria to do just that. By disarming Bacillus anthracis and loading it...
Star-shaped molecule created after 25 year effort
October 2, 2014
A complex star-shaped molecule of interlocking rings has been created at the University of Manchester following a quarter of a century of research. The molecule, dubbed the Star of David,...
Dry roasting a trigger for peanut allergy
October 1, 2014
There is a striking difference between the prevalence of peanut allergies in the Western world and the East and it could be down to the way the nuts are prepared.Dry...
Superheavy element pairing probes Einstein’s relativity
September 30, 2014
Chemists probing the predictive power of trends in the Periodic Table have successfully established a chemical bond between a superheavy element and a carbon atom. The pairing, between seaborgium and...
Happy Birthday CERN!
September 29, 2014
Today marks 60 years since the 12 founding member states ratified the CERN convention and the European Organization for Nuclear Research was born.The world's largest particle physics laboratory is celebrating...
Jamming bacterial ‘shredder’ could fight infection
September 29, 2014
By jamming their ‘paper shredder’, scientists might be able to drown deadly bacteria in their own paperwork. Researchers from the University of Leeds have identified how this paper shredder works...
Queen’s to head £6m cancer prevention initiative
September 29, 2014
Queen’s University in Belfast are to spearhead a £6 million initiative to find better ways to prevent cancer. The Cancer Prevention Science Initiative aims to support cutting-edge research to find...
New microscopy technique images living single cells
September 26, 2014
A new microscopy technology has allowed scientists to paint a target in a living subject and watch how it works with unprecedented sensitivity and precision. Dubbed Complementation Activated Light Microscopy...
Plumage no sacrifice for peacocks
September 25, 2014
Peacocks are known for their long iridescent feathers which they use to attract a mate, but their display of love was also thought to be a sacrifice as it affected...
Meteorite points to life on Mars
September 24, 2014
A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant might have hosted life. Upon this meteorite, researchers found a cell-like structure...
AMS show modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped
September 23, 2014
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...
Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results
September 22, 2014
Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint signals of cosmic background radiation released a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.In...
