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Large missions debated by ESA

March 14, 2011
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Although 2020 is almost a decade away, the European Space Agency is busy debating which large mission should be commissioned to push the boundaries of our knowledge.
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Vision loss pinpointed and test developed

March 14, 2011
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Glaucoma threatens the sight of millions each year and one group of American scientists think they’ve pinpointed the location where vision loss occurs, while an engineer has developed a hand-held...
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Super speed broadband

March 11, 2011
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Waiting for a website to load is annoying at the best of times but a new research project aimed at making broadband internet 100 times faster could change put an...
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Learning increased with brain stimulation

March 9, 2011
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Cerebral stimulation may be used to treat functional disorders of the brain thanks to research which shows stimulating parts of the brain can help rats learn more easily.
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p63 – the cause of female infertility

March 7, 2011
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Cancer treatment can often leave women infertile and researchers in Germany believe they have begun to unveil the mechanism just why this happens
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Blue cheeses under the microscope

March 7, 2011
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Blue cheeses are going under the microscope as scientists in the East Midlands try to figure out what gives the dairy delights their distinctive taste, texture and smell.
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Goldilocks explains lack of dino tracks

March 4, 2011
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The Goldilocks Effect – where all conditions have to be ‘just right’ – might explain why dinosaur tracks have been preserved in some areas and not in others.
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Hope for rare chameleon

March 3, 2011
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A new population of a critically endangered Madagascan chameleon has been found on the island just three days after an international conference assessing their conservation status.
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Protein collisions derail DNA replication

March 3, 2011
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DNA replication is riskier than originally thought say researchers at the University of Nottingham who liken DNA to a bi-directional rail track with two types of train.
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Earth’s core rotates slower than thought

March 3, 2011
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The Earth’s core is moving at one degree every million years, not one degree each year as scientists previously believed suggests new research.
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Powerful microscope to solve virus riddle

March 2, 2011
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The standard optical microscope can only see items around 1 micrometre – 0.001mm – clearly, but researchers from the University of Manchester have developed a powerful microscope that can see...
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First crustacean genome sequenced

March 2, 2011
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The humble water flea might be too small to see, but is valuable as a marker for pollution and toxins in freshwater ecosystems; now it’s genome has been sequenced and...
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