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APOE4 Alzheimer’s risk probed

August 21, 2012
News
People carrying the Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 are more likely to develop the neurological disease because they have trouble clearing the amyloid plaques characteristic of the illness say researchers in...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Pathology, Proteomics & Genomics
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Target healthy tissue to treat cancer

August 20, 2012
News
Cancer treatments usually target the disease-causing tumour, but researchers in Belfast suggest targeting the non-cancerous cells around a tumour could be a more effective treatment. Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology
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Healthier chocolate

August 16, 2012
News
Chocolate could get healthier as scientists replace half of its fat content with fruit juice.The fruit juice infused chocolate bar has been developed by chemists from the University of Warwick...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Beverage
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The perfect sandcastle

August 16, 2012
News
Key to sandcastle construction is water – but how much should we be adding to dry sand to build the perfect palace?Water functions to build small bridges between grains of...
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London delivers clean games

August 16, 2012
News
London 2012 produced one of Team GB’s most successful medal hauls, but it might also be one of the least polluted games in history.Scientists have taken to the skies around...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental Chemistry
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Fracking safe provided regulations strengthened

August 15, 2012
News
Fracking is safe as long as best practice is followed and regulations are tightened a review from the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering has concluded.However, fracking may...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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Quantum dot moves to redefine ampere

August 15, 2012
News
A pump which picks electrons up one-by-one and moves them across a barrier to create a well-defined electrical current has been developed by National Physical Laboratory and University of Cambridge...
Physics & Engineering
Physics, Quantum Physics
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Potential food crisis linked to climate change

August 14, 2012
News
The UK could face a potential food crisis with dramatically reduced food choices in the future, unless more is done to cut greenhouse gases suggests a new report from the...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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New technique for radiation detection

August 13, 2012
News
A new technique could see radiation detection of cargo and baggage become more effective and less costly.Spectral shape discrimination (SDD) – developed at Sandia National Laboratories – uses metal organic...
Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry
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Green rust’s crucial role in ancient atmosphere

August 8, 2012
News
Green rust may have played a crucial role in the creation of Earth’s early atmosphere suggests new research into the highly reactive mineral.The mineral rarely occurs in nature as it...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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Bacteriophage therapy to treat Iraqibacter

August 6, 2012
News
A technique to counter infections last used in the 1930s could be used to treat wounded soldiers attacked by a superbug.Bacteriophage therapy uses otherwise harmless biological organisms to target a...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Pathology
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Explosive solar activity imaged

August 3, 2012
News
New images of an upward surge of the Sun’s gases into a coronal loop have helped scientists move closer towards understanding the origin of space storms.Meanwhile the UK Government Office...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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