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Why spiders don’t stick to their own web

March 15, 2012
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If you walk into a spider’s web, you generally get it stuck all over you, but spiders don’t stick to their own webs and researchers in America think they know...
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New sensor inspired by origami

March 15, 2012
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Inspired by origami – the Japanese art of paper folding – American chemists have developed a point-of-care sensor that could diagnose malaria and HIV in the developing world for less...
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Taking a numerical approach to fMRI

March 15, 2012
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging only gives us a glimpse of what’s going on in the brain. Researchers from the University of Oxford have modified the technique to provide a full...
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Food crops damaged by continent-travelling pollution

March 14, 2012
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Europe loses 1.2 million tonnes of wheat a year because of man-made air pollution sweeping across the continent from North America says a new study from the Universities of Leeds...
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Next generation solar cells

March 12, 2012
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A new type of solar cell that generates two electrons from every photon absorbed has the potential to increase the maximum efficiency of solar panels by over 25%.Researchers from the...
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‘Goldilocks’ gene dictates TB response

March 9, 2012
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A ‘Goldilocks’ gene that dictates whether your response to tuberculosis is ‘too much, ‘too little’ or ‘just right’ may determine the best treatment for the disease.An international team of researchers...
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A deadly solution (Video exclusive)

March 7, 2012
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Faced with snakes, spiders and scorpions – there was only one thing the Lab News team could do; make a film.Lab News took to the road to find out what...
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Protein family hails Hypoxia breakthrough

March 7, 2012
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The discovery of a new family of proteins which regulate the body’s hypoxic response has allowed a significant step forward in understanding the process which can cause and affect the...
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Spider’s web resists damage

March 5, 2012
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It’s not just the strength of the silk that makes a spider’s web so strong, say researchers in America, it’s the stretchiness too.Spider’s silk stretches and softens when pulled, before...
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Ancient mating song revealed

March 2, 2012
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The mating song of an extinct cricket that lived 165 million years ago has been bought back to life thanks to an international team of scientists.Modern-day katydids or bush crickets...
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Mathematics of a heart beat

March 1, 2012
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A new mathematical model that looks at the calcium activity within the atrial heart cell could significantly improve our chances of treating heart disease and stroke.Each heartbeat is a coordinated...
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Get your teeth into it

March 1, 2012
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Milk teeth and permanent adult teeth do not develop in the same way suggests new research which could assist in age-at-death determinations in forensic situations.Dr Patrick Mahoney from the University...
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