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Imaging the night sky

September 23, 2010
A series of cameras are to continuously scan the night skies over the UK to look for incoming meteors and provide details on the best conditions for night time surveys.

Company receives renewable energy award

September 22, 2010
A company which develops renewable Combined Heat and Power technology has been named Renewable Energy Innovator 2010 at the British Renewable Energy Awards.

Simple differentiation

September 20, 2010
The scaffold on which stem cells differentiate plays a role determining which type of cell they become leading researchers to create a novel type of matrix to grow them on.

Communities in a century

September 16, 2010
Flying cars, personalised robots and homes constructed from recycled materials will be commonplace in 2110 according to a junior think tank.

Fruit flies offer insight into memory formation

September 16, 2010
An independent pathway for olfactory memory formation in Drosophila has been discovered by scientists at Scripps Research institute.

Best male wears red

September 16, 2010
A truth universally known is that men find a lady in red alluring, but did you know women also find a guy in red attractive, even if they don’t know...

Searching for a body of evidence

September 15, 2010
Dead bodies buried under patios are commonplace in soap storylines, but forensic scientists can find themselves searching for and recovering corpses in real life; it can be time consuming especially...

Sugar coating HIV

September 13, 2010
The HIV virus’ carbohydrate camouflage remains constant across all classes of HIV but differs from the carbohydrate coat found on human cells; targeting this protective layer could form the basis...

Origami folded into the engineering mix

September 10, 2010
Robots capable of transforming from one shape into another are being developed by researchers at MIT and Harvard, who have combined the ancient Japanese folk art of origami with modern...

Fuel of the future

September 10, 2010
An unpleasant combination of out-of-date food, animal manure and sewage sludge could be the key to a greener Britain if the Government can thrash out an action plan to increase...

Special Report – Race for the Higgs is on

September 8, 2010
As scientists at the Large Hadron Collider confirm the physics we already know, Fermilab say they’re closing in on the Higgs boson – Laboratory News investigates what’s new in particle...

Drug treasure trove unearthed

September 6, 2010
A treasure trove of potential new treatments for multi-drug resistant disease has been discovered after scientists unearthed a novel antibiotic through genome mining.

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