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Meet the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy

May 23, 2022
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Scientists have captured humanity’s first look at the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), that is at the centre of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The Sgr...
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Saving the vaquita porpoise from extinction

May 5, 2022
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Only ten vaquita porpoises survive, but the species may not be doomed, scientists say. If they can escape death in poachers’ nets, the endangered marine mammal is well poised to...
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Scientists identify the most extreme heatwaves ever recorded globally

May 4, 2022
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A new study has revealed the most intense heatwaves ever across the world – and remarkably some of these went almost unnoticed decades ago. The research, led by the University...
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Scientists announce comprehensive regional diagnostic of microbial ocean life using DNA testing

May 4, 2022
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Scientists announce comprehensive regional diagnostic of microbial ocean life using DNA testing. Large-scale ‘metabarcoding’ methods could revolutionize how society understands forces that drive the planet’s ability to remove greenhouse gases.
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Pandemic a ‘missed opportunity’ to recruit specialists of the future

May 3, 2022
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Careers in laboratories must be “made more visible” to encourage more young people into the field and support the growth of life sciences, the head of an international laboratory company...
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Augmented Reality helps people live with Parkinson’s disease

April 29, 2022
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A collaborative partnership has developed the World's First pair of Parkinson’s Walking Glasses, a wearable mobility device that projects visual cues to facilitate mobility for people with Parkinson’s Disease. Thanks...
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Chemical compliance for the medtech industry: new whitepaper

April 27, 2022
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Chemical compounds are used both within the constituent materials used to make medical devices and as auxiliary substances during processing, such as lubricants and cleaning agents or for disinfection and...
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Two millimetre optical microresonator will improve planetary landing success

April 21, 2022
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Smaller, they say, is better in space. A NASA-funded team led by SMU researchers think that their small, lightweight device developed to measure spaceship velocity will improve the odds of...
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Biomarker-guided trial opens new avenues for personalised medicine in COVID-19

April 14, 2022
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A multi-centre study led by the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) is evaluating one of the first personalised approaches for moderate to severe COVID-19 patients. The innovative biomarkers bio-ADM and DPP3...
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Secret of antimatter creation in cosmic collisions revealed

April 14, 2022
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At the Quark Matter conference and Rencontres de Moriond conferences, the LHCb collaboration presented an analysis of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that may help determine whether...
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Sustainable concept for wood-based textile fibres

April 14, 2022
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The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance...
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So… What is the point of physics? IOP is offering £1000 for the best answer!

April 7, 2022
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IoP launches a new challenge to get young people to see physics differently. With only one in ten parents believing physics to be a worthwhile topic, and nearly half of...
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