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Turning cellulose into starch for new food source

May 1, 2013
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A potential food source can be created from plants not traditionally thought of as food crops suggests a team at Virginia Tech who have succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch.This...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany, Food & Beverage
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Air-breathing batteries powered by the people

April 22, 2013
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Researchers in Poland have created air-breathing biobatteries that may be used to power pacemakers, hearing aids and other body implants in the future.The team at the Institute of Physical Chemistry...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology
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Flight of the bumblebee

April 19, 2013
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A bumblebee is more stable when it is flying quickly, rather than hovering at slow speeds suggests research published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.Researchers in China used a mathematical...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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A scaled-up solar system

April 17, 2013
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A team of astrophysicists have made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet beyond our solar system. High-resolution imaging spectrograpy with the Keck ii 10-metre...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Turning winemakers’ trash into treasure

April 15, 2013
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Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have realised leftover pulp (called pomace) from crushed wine grapes can be turned into useful substances.Wineries typically pay for the pulp to be taken...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Beverage
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Gravity affects sex in plants

April 12, 2013
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Changes in gravity affect reproduction in plants, reveals a University of Montreal study. Their findings, published in PLOS ONE, offer new insight into how life evolved on Earth.Gravity was found...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biophysics, Botany, Physics
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“Spooky action at a distance” on the ISS

April 10, 2013
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The International Space Station (ISS) will reportedly host quantum entanglement experiments that may eventually change the way we communicate on Earth. Despite being described as ‘spooky action at a distance’...
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Turning a mobile into a low-cost microscope

April 10, 2013
News
A cheap glass lens, a strip of double sided sticky tape and a simple torch are all you need to turn your iPhone into a field microscope, according to a...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
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Brain preservation technique could lead to unreliable autopsies

April 10, 2013
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For the first time, scientists have conducted neutron scattering  experiments on brain tissue. They have found that formaldehyde preservation is not as reliable as initially thought, as it significantly affects...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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Mummy study reveals ancient ancestors’ clogged arteries

April 8, 2013
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Ancient hunter-gatherers suffered from clogged arteries too, reveals a study published in The Lancet. The research suggests that the plaque that builds up causing blood clots, heart attacks and strokes...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Paleobiology, Pathology
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Modelling the hearts of the unborn

April 5, 2013
News
An ECG device used in a study aimed at developing the first comprehensive model of the functioning foetal heart has shed light on surprising differences in human cardiac development to...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology
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Hopping back to the gene pool

April 3, 2013
News
Scientists have revitalised the genome of an extinct Australian frog using sophisticated cloning technology.Using somatic nuclear transfer, the Lazarus Project team is closer than ever to bringing the Rheobatrachus silus...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Proteomics & Genomics, Zoology
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