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Network nanotrain arrives on time

December 16, 2013
News
Powered by nanoscale motors and controlled by DNA – the latest tiny self-assembling transport networks have been built by researchers in the UK.The nanotrain system can construct its own network...
Materials
Nanotechnology
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Rudolf’s eye adaptation copes with extremes

December 11, 2013
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Reindeers’ eyes have to function in extreme conditions – continuous summer daylight, followed by continuous winter darkness – and researchers have discovered they adapt their eye colour to deal with...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Nanoparticles by design

December 11, 2013
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Researchers in Japan say they have succeeded in designing and creating multicomponent nanoparticles with controlled shape and structure.These multicomponent nanoparticles contain two or more materials – in this case silicon...
Materials
Nanotechnology
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Why the kettle whistles

December 9, 2013
News
For more than 100 years, scientists have been puzzled as to why a kettle on the stove whistles – what is the physical source of the noise and the specific...
Physics & Engineering
Physics
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Nanoparticles deliver punch to breast cancer

December 5, 2013
News
Triple negative breast cancer – an aggressive form of the disease – is very difficult to treat; researchers at MIT have developed a way to weaken tumour defences before striking...
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The planet that ‘shouldn’t exist’

December 4, 2013
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Astronomers have weighed an Earth-sized planet orbiting another star and concluded that it shouldn’t exist.The results from two independent teams published in Nature confirm Kepler-78b as the first known Earth-sized...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

November 29, 2013
News
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass extinction event nearly 252 million years ago.The cause of the massive extinction at...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Paleobiology
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Unexpected boron coupling reaction

November 28, 2013
News
Two positively charged compounds of boron have been joined to form a chain of four boron atoms in a previously unknown coupling reaction.In synthetic chemistry, element-element bonding is exploited to...
Chemistry
Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry
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New mammalian cell culture facility

November 25, 2013
News
A new mammalian cell culture cGMP manufacturing facility has been opened in Billingham, Teesside by Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies.The new facility – commissioned and built within 15 months – is the...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology
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Sticky sperm

November 20, 2013
News
Sticky sperm could hold the key to greater success for those undergoing IVF treatment say researchers from the University of Leeds.A £1.3m trial – the largest clinical trial to date...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology
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Award for Immunocore

November 20, 2013
News
Oxford-based Immunocore has won the Best Biotech Dealmaker Award of 2013 at the OBN (Oxfordshire Bioscience Network) annual awards. The award recognises Immunocore’s achievement in closing two major partnerships with Genentech...
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Fluid frenzy at MIT

November 13, 2013
News
In separate studies, two groups of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been probing the properties of fluid droplets.Firstly, researchers unexpectedly discovered water droplets that form on a superhydrophobic...
Physics & Engineering
Physics
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