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Chemical structures transferred to public domain

January 8, 2014
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Patented chemical structures are to be transferred to the public domain, giving researchers access to a new source of highly relevant compounds related to curing human disease.SureChem – developed by...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
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Ground breaking European missions to probe early universe

January 6, 2014
News
The ESA has announced their next two L-class missions; one to study galaxy and black hole formation, and one to establish a gravitational wave observatory.The so called Large, or L-class,...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Scientists feature in New Year’s Honours

January 2, 2014
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Science featured heavily in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list with the following being awarded to prominent scientist for services in the field.Among this year’s honourees were Professor Peter Ratcliffe...
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Nanoparticles and the environment

December 30, 2013
News
Metallic nanoparticles have many possible uses – including clean fuel technology and high density storage – but their potential effects on their environment remain unknown.An international team of researchers have...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Lion’s Lair winners

December 30, 2013
News
Cleaver Scientific scooped first prize in the Lion’s Lair at LABINNOVATIONS for its ‘Safe’ Series, designed to make DNA electrophoresis procedures safer, more convenient and more economical.The ‘Safe’ series eliminates...
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‘Swiss army knife’ secret of RNA polymerase I

December 19, 2013
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The 3-dimensional structure of a molecular machine scientists have likened to the Swiss army knife has been visualised in high-resolution for the first time.RNA polymerase I incorporates modules which prevent...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Chemistry
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Unique organ gives koalas low-pitched call

December 19, 2013
News
Koalas have an unusual mating call; its pitch is about 20 times lower than it should be for an animal of its size.The cause of the extremely low-pitched bellow calls...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Award for talented eight

December 18, 2013
News
Eight recent graduates are set to follow in the footsteps of luminaries such as Professor Peter Higgs and Paul Dirac after receiving £80,000 each to develop innovative commercial technologies as...
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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
News
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
News
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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