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NHS staff targeted by nearly 140,000 malicious emails last year

February 8, 2021
I suspect we can all testify to a rise in confusing calls claiming our National Insurance is about to implode if we dont' send money immediately, terrifyingly targeted fraudulant messages...

Droplet formation at the nanoscale

February 4, 2021
It is surprising to find such everyday physics in the nanoscale world of molecular biology, but when researchers observed how droplets of TPX2 formed on rod-like filaments called microtubules they...

Cell shape influences antibiotic resistance

February 3, 2021
A broad, curvy shape has a lower surface-to-volume ratio and is less susceptible to surface invasion. So, being wide and curvatious helps bacteria survive antibiotics, continue to grow, and adapt...

Robotic exoskeleton training expands options for stroke rehabilitation

February 2, 2021
It must be hard enough to recover from an acute stroke, but many find the physical taxation of rehabilitation exercises incredibly challenging. Retraining the brain to drive the complex processes...

Meet the baby tyrannosaurs – dog-sized and looking just like mum and dad

January 29, 2021
Imagine mini tyrannosaurs running around your legs like collie dogs! They may have grown to 40 feet as adults, but baby tyrannosaurs looked like their parents when they first hatched...

Closed-loop chemical recycling of common petrochemical realised

January 28, 2021
Imagine plastics and rubber that can be chemically unzipped back to reusable monomers for recycling. In the way of all the most exciting advances, this process of depolymerisation - a...

Antiviral coating kills viruses and bacteria for product lifetime

January 26, 2021
Can you imagine a world where you wouldn't have to worry about disease transmission from surfaces such as door handles, keyboards, bank notes, and even doctor's gowns and facemasks? Matt...

Developing multi-functional catalysts with light switches

January 25, 2021
Researchers were able to observe the atomic-scale features of a catalyst using an environmental transmission electron microscope, enabling them to manipulate and optimise catalytic reactions using light. This technique could...

Not just a droplet: Explaining one dimensional quantum liquid formation

January 22, 2021
A new type of quantum droplet - the most dilute liquids ever experimentally observed - helps unravel the mechanism leading to the formation of one dimensional self-bound quantum liquids in...

Why cells don’t get stuck – generalised cell migration and motility modelled mathematically

January 22, 2021
Cell movement has now been mathematically modelled by an interdisciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists. Understanding this fundamental process will allow scientists to predict cell behaviours and improve targeted...

Roll over Indiana Jones – the modern archeologist comes armed with technology

January 21, 2021
Looking into the past never looked so futuristic as it does today, and the Indiana Jones-style stereotype - with his muck-ridden, dirt digging, tomb raiding archeology - must make way...

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