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Renewable energy success: hydrogen fuel cell produced using inexpensive catalyst

October 3, 2012
News
University of Cambridge scientists have produced hydrogen from water using an inexpensive catalyst, under industrially relevant conditions. The researchers, whose findings are published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition,...
Chemistry
Chemistry, Green Chemistry
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New genetic variants linked to bipolar disorder

October 3, 2012
News
Scientists have gained new understanding of the origin of bipolar disorder by identifying genetic variants linked to signalling pathways in the brain likely to be involved in causing the neurological...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Pathology, Proteomics & Genomics
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Weighing the ocean

October 1, 2012
News
Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre and Newcastle University have proposed a method that will estimate the mass of the world ocean by weighing it at a single point.Global sea...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography
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Quantum mechanics caught on camera

September 24, 2012
News
Images of quantum entanglement have been caught on camera for the first time by researchers at the University of Glasgow. Entanglement is one of the bizarre behaviours exhibited by particles...
Physics & Engineering
Physics, Quantum Physics
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Stopping cancer in its tracks

September 24, 2012
News
Cancer can be stopped in its tracks by a mutant gene, without any outside help from toxic chemotherapy drug say American researchers. While studying the mechanisms of gene integrity, researchers...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Oncology
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Skin cancer found in fish

September 21, 2012
News
Skin cancer has been identified for the first time in wild coral trout populations in the Great Barrier Reef – directly beneath the largest hole in the ozone layer. Researchers...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Oncology, Zoology
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Relief for hay fever sufferers: pollen-free house plants developed

September 19, 2012
News
Pollen-free plants can be produced by targeting two bacterial genes into the houseplant Pelargonium, new research suggests.The paper, published in the BioMed Central journal, BMC Plant Biology describes the work...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Botany
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Dedicated biomedical start-up office at LSP

September 19, 2012
News
SPARK Impact has teamed up with Liverpool Science Park (LSP) to launch an office dedicated to start-up businesses in the biomedical sector. The office is the latest in a series...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics
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Mathematicians solve biologists’ problem

September 19, 2012
News
Mathematicians may have solved a long-standing biological puzzle that had confounded molecular biologists – how protein production is regulated by microRNAs. Until the 1990s, biologists believed the major role of...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Microbiology
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Controlled wrinkling

September 17, 2012
News
By stretching and releasing material in a controlled and orderly way, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a way of making perfectly ordered and repeatable wrinkled surfaces.The...
Materials
Materials Science
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Packing a powerful punch

September 14, 2012
News
Brain scans of karate experts have revealed distinctive features in the structure of white matter which could be linked to their ability to punch powerfully from close range. Researchers from...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Microbiology
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Sediment collapse explains scale of tsunami

September 13, 2012
News
Cambridge University seismologists have developed a model that may explain why some tsunamis are larger than predicted – such as the Japanese March 2011 tsunami that baffled earthquake experts. The...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography, Tectonics
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