!

Latest News

Britain’s cheapest lunch

November 22, 2011
News
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has revealed that a toast sandwich is Britain’s cheapest lunchtime meal.The sandwich – a mid-Victorian dish – consists of two slices of bread, with...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Correcting the genome

November 21, 2011
News
Scientists have successfully and cleanly corrected a gene mutation in a patient’s stem cells, removing all traces of exogenous DNA before showing the corrected gene functions normally in test tube...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Special Report: Nobel Prizes head to America

November 18, 2011
News
The immune system, quasicrystals and the ever-accelerating universe – this was the science that scooped the Nobel Prizes in medicine or physiology, chemistry and physics this year.This year, the discovery...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Heme hijacker

November 16, 2011
News
Heme – one of the key pigments of life – can be synthesised via a new, unusual and unexpected chemical process say researchers from the University of Kent. Researchers discovered...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Cooking up the perfect plastic

November 14, 2011
News
Scientists have solved a long-standing problem that could revolutionise the way plastics are developed with a high-tech recipe book for cooking up the perfect plastic. The breakthrough – made by...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Nanoantenna splits light

November 11, 2011
News
Swedish scientists have developed a nanoantenna that can act as a router for red and blue light, even though the antenna is smaller than the wavelength of light. The finding...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Glow in the dark brains

November 10, 2011
News
Glioblastoma is one of the common and most harmful primary malignant brain tumours in adults, and making the tumours glow in the dark could enable surgeons to remove it more...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Real-life Scrat unearthed

November 10, 2011
News
The animators of Ice Age might not have been too far off the mark when the created the loveable sabre-toothed squirrel Scrat. Researchers from the University of Louisville have unearthed...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Smartphone set for space

November 10, 2011
News
Scientists in Surrey have been developing a nanosatellite on a shoestring budget – their smartphone-controlled satellite will be launched next year. Researchers from the Surrey Space Centre and engineers at...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Cholesterol key to ‘sneaky’ HIV weakness

November 9, 2011
News
Removing cholesterol from the membrane surrounding the HIV virus could point to a new method of preventing the virus from damaging the immune system. Researchers from Imperial College London and...
Uncategorised
Read More...

What a difference a D20 makes

November 7, 2011
News
Water is one of the simplest and most abundant chemicals on the planet, but scientists are still working to unlock its secrets, including understanding its true structure. An international collaboration...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Research leads to TV gold

November 4, 2011
News
There’s nothing worse for the telly addicts amongst us than sitting down to watch TV and getting an awful glare off the screen, but a simple layer of gold could...
Uncategorised
Read More...

Pin It on Pinterest