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Superheavy element pairing probes Einstein’s relativity

September 30, 2014
News
Chemists probing the predictive power of trends in the Periodic Table have successfully established a chemical bond between a superheavy element and a carbon atom. The pairing, between seaborgium and...
Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry
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Happy Birthday CERN!

September 29, 2014
News
Today marks 60 years since the 12 founding member states ratified the CERN convention and the European Organization for Nuclear Research was born.The world's largest particle physics laboratory is celebrating...
Physics & Engineering
Particle Physics, Physics
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Jamming bacterial ‘shredder’ could fight infection

September 29, 2014
News
By jamming their ‘paper shredder’, scientists might be able to drown deadly bacteria in their own paperwork. Researchers from the University of Leeds have identified how this paper shredder works...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Microbiology
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Queen’s to head £6m cancer prevention initiative

September 29, 2014
News
Queen’s University in Belfast are to spearhead a £6 million initiative to find better ways to prevent cancer. The Cancer Prevention Science Initiative aims to support cutting-edge research to find...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Oncology
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New microscopy technique images living single cells

September 26, 2014
News
A new microscopy technology has allowed scientists to paint a target in a living subject and watch how it works with unprecedented sensitivity and precision. Dubbed Complementation Activated Light Microscopy...
Life Sciences
Cell Biology
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Plumage no sacrifice for peacocks

September 25, 2014
News
Peacocks are known for their long iridescent feathers which they use to attract a mate, but their display of love was also thought to be a sacrifice as it affected...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Meteorite points to life on Mars

September 24, 2014
News
A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant might have hosted life. Upon this meteorite, researchers found a cell-like structure...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Biophysics, Physics
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AMS show modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

September 23, 2014
News
Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been revealed using an improved accelerator mass spectrometry technique. Researchers from the University of Oxford dated...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Underestimation of dust threatens BICEP results

September 22, 2014
News
Spinning dust grains have put a dampener on the celebrations that cosmologists have found faint signals of cosmic background radiation released a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.In...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics
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Cheetah-bot’s successful test run

September 22, 2014
News
Cheetahs are the fasted land mammal on Earth, capable of going zero to 60 miles per hour in a matter of seconds, and researchers at MIT have developed an algorithm...
Physics & Engineering
Computer Science
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Extremophile key to nuclear waste disposal

September 19, 2014
News
A subterranean bacterium could solve the problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste say researchers at the University of Manchester. This is the first time a microbe capable of...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental Chemistry
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Splitting water based on nuclear spin

September 19, 2014
News
Separation of water based on the nuclear spin of individual molecules has been made possible thanks to what scientists are dubbing an electric prism. Water exists in two nuclear spin...
Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry
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