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Is mud the key to a happy life?

May 14, 2007
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Dirt – perhaps not the first thing you might think of as the ideal treatment for depression. However, scientists have found that mud could indeed be an elixir of mood.
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Tiny wires power nano revolution

May 11, 2007
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A scientist has developed a nanogenerator that can produce a continuous flow of electricity from ultrasonic waves or even blood flow.
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European award for UK immunologist

May 9, 2007
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An academic who developed a treatment for autoimmune disease that has helped millions of patients around the world has received a prestigious lifetime achievement award at this year’s European Inventor...
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Earthquakes reveal the planet’s temperature

May 7, 2007
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Scientists have taken the temperature of the Earth’s internal structure finding it to be a white-hot 3700?C – But rather than a thermometer, it was earthquake-generated seismic waves that proved...
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Clear link for genetic component of obesity

May 3, 2007
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Scientists in the UK have identified the clearest genetic link yet to obesity in the general population, suggesting that people with two copies of a specific gene have a 70%...
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Green light for eco-car

April 30, 2007
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Motor racing, hardly an ecologically sound past time, until now that is. Scientists and engineers have developed an environmentally-friendly race car with a difference - its shell is made from...
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Scientists granted £1.2m to develop atom chip

April 27, 2007
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The promise of quantum computing and ultra-accurate sensors could soon be one step closer with the announcement that an EPSRC grant awarded to scientists to develop atom chip devices.
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Slime technology moves at a snail’s pace

April 25, 2007
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A gardener’s worst nightmare they might be, but that hasn’t stopped engineers from trying to get to the bottom of what makes snail slime so special.
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Computing in science hits 50

April 23, 2007
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They represent one of the most important developments for modern science, indeed the modern world, and the impact they have had on research is almost immeasurable. It is hard to...
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Study is breakthrough for dyscalculia sufferers

April 20, 2007
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Scientists think they have found the area of the brain that goes wrong in people with dyscalculia - a condition that renders them unable to perform arithmetic.
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Finding the ‘DNA’ of the galaxy

April 18, 2007
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An international team of astronomers has used the chemical composition of stars to shed light on the formation of our Milky Way.
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Fingerprint science makes its mark

April 16, 2007
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Finding fingerprints at a crime scene has been a staple of forensic police work for decades, but now a new development could help reveal hidden fingerprints.
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