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Life science boosted with venture capital fund

February 4, 2013
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Rock Spring Ventures will launch a £50 million venture capital fund to invest in life science companies spun out of UK universities. The fund aims to provide ‘mission-related investment’ to...
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One in six stars has Earth-sized planet

February 4, 2013
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A new analysis of Kepler spacecraft data has revealed that about 17% of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury. This means (since the Milky Way...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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New state of matter produced by LHC

January 21, 2013
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Collisions between protons and lead ions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have produced a new type of matter known as colour-glass condensate.When particle beams interact at high speeds,...
Physics & Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics, Physics
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Galaxy cluster ‘dark core’ not so dark after all

January 18, 2013
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When NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed an overabundance of dark matter in the core of the merging dark galaxy cluster Abell 520 earlier this year, astronomers were surprised. However, new...
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Astronomy, Physics
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Chemistry resolves carbon nanotube safety fears

January 17, 2013
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Safety fears about carbon nanotubes - due to their similarity to asbestos - have been resolved following research, conducted at University College London, which revealed that reducing their length removes...
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Protein SP2 crucial to neuron creation

January 17, 2013
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A cell cycle regulator protein called Sp2 may be the key to the proper creation of neurons from stem cells, according to research conducted at North Carolina State University. Improved...
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Biological Sciences, Cell Biology
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Grand Canyon as old as the dinosaurs

January 16, 2013
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One of the Seven Wonders of the World is older and with a more interesting history than was previously assumed. Mineral grains from the bottom of the western Grand Canyon...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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X-ray laser to slay sleeping sickness parasite

January 14, 2013
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The world’s most powerful X-ray laser has revealed the three-dimensional structure of an important enzyme vital to the functioning of the parasite that causes sleeping sickness.An international team of scientists...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology
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Dance of quantum twisters

January 11, 2013
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A quantum fluid trapped on top of a semiconductor chip can be used to measure movements remarkably precisely. Tornado-like vortexes can be produced in fluids which are controlled by quantum...
Physics & Engineering
Physics, Quantum Physics
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NASA happens upon forecast breakthrough

January 9, 2013
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A researcher who set out to develop a formula to protect Apollo sites on the moon from rocket exhaust has happened upon a way to improve weather forecasting on Earth.John...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Ultra-hot test rig for Space-Age ceramics

January 7, 2013
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Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed the first testing facility that enables CT-scanning of ceramic composites under controlled loads at ultrahigh temperatures in real time.Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS)...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Fossilised microbe discovered in 200 million year old leech cocoon

January 4, 2013
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Palaeobiologists at the University of Kansas have discovered a ciliate fossil embedded in the wall of a fossilised leech cocoon, itself embedded in rock that has been dated back to...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Paleobiology
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