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An embarrasment of riches for relativity

May 4, 2012
Einstein’s view of the Universe has gained yet more evidence as cosmologists better understand the acceleration of the Universe.A team from the University of Portsmouth and the Max Planck Institute...

Revealing volcanic plumbing

May 2, 2012
Understanding the plumbing systems that lie under volcanoes could help scientists predict large scale eruptions, but observing them can be difficult since 98% of the global mid-ocean ridge is below...

Hookworms to treat MS

April 30, 2012
Parasitic worms could offer a new treatment for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) say researchers from the University of Nottingham.Scientists are recruiting patients who suffer from MS for a clinical...

Dione has oxygen exosphere

April 27, 2012
Saturn’s moon Dione has a weak exosphere which includes molecules of oxygen suggests new findings from Cassini.In a pass of Dione in April 2010, the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) detected...

Glowing fish offer clues to pollution damage

April 27, 2012
Green-glowing zebrafish could offer new clues to the health impacts of pollution on both wildlife and human health.A team from the University of Exeter and University College London (UCL) created...

Brain freeze offers new insight into headache

April 27, 2012
The phenomenon of brain freeze – associated with eating ice-cream and cold drinks – has been used as a proxy to study migraines and other types of headaches.Researchers in America...

New clues to cancer communication

April 27, 2012
There is growing interest in the idea that the body’s immune system might be trained to fight cancer, and new research suggests intercepting communication signals sent around the body by...

Sanofi to close R&D and drug manufacturing site

April 25, 2012
Sanofi are to close their drug manufacturing site in Newcastle, and the Genzyme R&D site in Cambridge, resulting in the loss of over 500 jobs.The Fawdon site in Newcastle will...

Observing embryonic development

April 25, 2012
Embryonic development that was previously unobservable has now become observable thanks to Cambridge researchers who have established a new method to visualise embryos ex utero.During the first four days of...

Advances in blood clot switch understanding

April 25, 2012
Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding how a biochemical switch linked to blood-clotting, strokes and heart disease is switched on.Researchers led by the University of Leicester – and...

Marine worm with a toxic diet

April 23, 2012
Faced with a scarce food supply in the sandy sediments in which it lives, a small marine worm survives on a highly poisonous menu of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide.The...

Glowing nanotubes to aid therapeutics

April 23, 2012
Glowing carbon nanotubes could be the key to delivering drugs to cancer cells or modified DNA molecules for gene therapy say researchers in Bath. Researchers from the Department of Chemistry...

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