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Sloppy maths surprisingly useful

January 6, 2011
If your head is still a little fuzzy after the New Year and you can’t keep up with the calculations needed on the job, don’t worry because sloppy arithmetic is...

Scientists honoured in New Year list

January 6, 2011
The New Year’s Honours Lists was announced at the end of 2010, and science featured prominently with a British-born astronaut, university professors and a TV presenter scooping a collection of...

What’s yours?

January 6, 2011
It might be a New Year, but the resolutions are the same – and our brain hampers our efforts to stick to them by expecting a reward for the bad...

Bettering Haber-Bosch

January 5, 2011
Cambridge researchers think they’ve figured out a way to improve the efficiency of ammonia synthesis process, research which could have wide-reaching implications in the agricultural and energy sector.

New component to gravity explains anomaly

January 3, 2011
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can be reconciled with a new force which explains the rotation of stars in the centre of a galaxy and unexpected spacecraft trajectories says a Viennese...

Antibiotics boost

January 3, 2011
A company developing novel DNA-based antibiotic technology against drug-resistant infections has received an equity investment totalling £730,000, with the potential to rise to £1.25 million.

Is Santa toxic?

December 22, 2010
How does Santa survive in the North Pole? Not only is it freezing cold, but everything he eats is likely to be filled with toxic chemicals say scientists from Norway.

Saving the Christmas tree

December 22, 2010
Your living room floor is awash with needles from the Christmas tree because the plant hormone ethylene causes the tree to shed its needles say researchers, who have also discovered...

Tropical mistletoe discovered

December 22, 2010
A new parasitic tropical mistletoe has been described just in time for Christmas. The mistletoe – discovered near the summit of Mount Mabu in Mozambique – has been named Helixanthera...

New home for cell research

December 22, 2010
Scientists investigating the building blocks of life are being built a new home at the University of Warwick

Variant for reduced hypertension discovered

December 21, 2010
A genetic variation that is associated with reduced hypertension and a 7.7% reduction in cardiovascular disease has been uncovered by scientists in Glasgow and Milan – and they say there...

Perforin packs a punch

December 16, 2010
The human immune system’s assassin – the protein perforin – has been seen in action for the first time, and it packs quite a punch

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