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Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography

Bristol researchers say the satellite record for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets needs to improve if we are to examine ice loss correctly.It is currently too short to tell...

Earth & Environmental

Watering your crops by phone

August 5, 2013

A new app has been developed which means smart phones could soon monitor irrigation water use according to need, to ensure food is produced in a sustainable way.“About 70% of...

Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Botany

Solar tsunami used to measure Sun’s magnetic field

August 2, 2013

A solar tsunami has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun’s magnetic field.Solar tsunamis are produced by huge explosions in the Sun’s atmosphere called coronal mass...

Hear a heartbeat in space

July 27, 2013

A new electronic stethoscope designed for NASA could deliver accurate heart and body sounds to doctors assessing the health of astronauts in a noisy spacecraft.Despite the silence of space itself,...

Unlocking the structure of elusive stress receptor

July 18, 2013

A spin-out pharmaceutical company has visualised for the first time a complicated protein receptor in the brain which controls our response to stress.Heptares Therapeutics, formed by a Cambridge molecular biology...

Biological Sciences, Neuroscience

Cellectricon launches grant to fund electroporation-based projects

July 18, 2013

Cellectricon is inviting researchers to apply for the recently launched Cellaxess Project Grant. The grant is open to any scientist or research group keen to use the advanced electromanipulation capabilities...

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Maths model explains why our Universe is a hologram

July 15, 2013

Researchers have taken a significant step to understanding the physics behind the structure of the Universe according to the holographic principle, by linking the two space-time theories.The Physical Review D...

Astronomy, Physics, Theoretical Physics

Eel fluorescent protein transforms clinical assay

July 12, 2013

A Japanese freshwater eel called unagi possesses a fluorescent protein that could revolutionise a key clinical assay for bilirubin, a critical indicator of liver function, haemolysis and jaundice.A team from...

Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Zoology

X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather

July 10, 2013

Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs and birds reveals that the feathers were patterned rather than all black as was previously...

Biological Sciences, Paleobiology

Doughnut-shaped electromagnetic fields demystify dark matter

July 5, 2013

A pair of physicists say their simple theory may explain dark matter – the mysterious, invisible form of matter that makes up 85% of the universe.Professor Robert Scherrer and post-doctoral...

Mars – warm, wet and rusty long before Earth

July 4, 2013

New evidence from the NASA Mars rover suggests that the red planet was wet, warm and had oxygen billions of years before Earth's atmosphere became oxygen rich.Differences between Martian meteorites...

UK leads the way in ‘legal high’ analysis

July 4, 2013

A team at the University of Lincoln, UK, is leading the way in new research aimed at detecting the vast amount of substances available on the legal highs market.The method...