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Is it time to change how we think of fossil fuels?

October 2, 2009
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Battling with scientific consensus, one scientist says we have got it wrong when to comes to oil and gas
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Hey scientist – just how do you think?

September 24, 2009
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Dr Nancy J Nersessian has studied the cognitive processes that underlie scientific creativity by observing scientists at work in their laboratories – and she thinks she has the answer.
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Notation for biologists

September 24, 2009
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The first standard graphical notation for biology has recently been launched by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute. The notation aims to be as useful to biologists as...
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Scientists turn off ‘obesity gene’ in mice

September 24, 2009
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a gene that appears to control obesity in mice, and have shown that by switching the gene off, mice remained thin even...
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Nanotube separation wins BNC new contract

September 23, 2009
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Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) has signed its largest contract to date with an unnamed chemical company.
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Space technology transfer handled by SFTC

September 21, 2009
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STFC Innovations - the technology transfer office of the Science & Technology Facilities Council - has been selected to lead the European Space Agency’s tech transfer programme in the UK.
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A light solution to amorous birds

September 18, 2009
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Oxford University researchers have discovered how birds sense the lengthening days of early Spring and time when they breed, solving a 70-year mystery.
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Mutated mitochondria promote premature ageing

September 16, 2009
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Researchers have shown how mitochondria - popularly known as the cells' power plants - can be the seat of early ageing.
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Researchers FRET over vesicle formation

September 14, 2009
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New insights into vesicle formation could open up prospects for the research of neurological and infectious diseases according to a group of Norwegian researchers.
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Replica brain possible – but funding stands in way

September 11, 2009
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Creating a replication of the human brain is a feasible short term goal according to neuroscientist Professor Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland. He believes that financial...
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Parasitic sleight of hand key to Leishmaniasis

September 11, 2009
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New research, led by Imperial College London, suggests the parasites that cause the tropical disease Leishmaniasis convince the immune system to help them rather than kill them.
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You spin me white round

September 11, 2009
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The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray telescope has uncovered the fastest rotating white dwarf ever observed in the Universe.
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