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Supernova explosions recreated in the lab

June 12, 2014
A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times more powerful than laser pointers. An international team of researchers used the Vulcan laser at...

That ‘gut feeling’ explained

June 11, 2014
By severing the brain-gut communication channel, researchers have got to the bottom of the proverbial gut instinct when it comes to fear. Communication between the brain and gut occurs via...

Deep sea root of marine evolution sparks controversy

June 11, 2014
The deep ocean may have played a much bigger role in protecting marine diversity than first thought suggests controversial new research from the University of Portsmouth. Fossils of starfish, sea...

Incentives needed to encourage data sharing

June 10, 2014
New types of incentives within the biomedical research community are necessary to improve sharing of large research datasets suggests a new report. The report from the EAGDA (the Expert Advisory...

New method to detect counterfeit drugs

June 9, 2014
Counterfeit medicines could now be detected more efficiently thanks to a new chemical analysis method developed by researchers at the University of Montreal. The method identifies and quantifies the various...

Mega-Earth found in Kepler-10c

June 6, 2014
The ‘Godzilla of Earths’ has been discovered by astronomers; the new type of planet is a mega-Earth; a rocky world weighing 17 times as much as Earth. It was believed...

Soft touch gone awry in autism

June 5, 2014
Nerves in the skin that respond to gentle touch may go awry in disorders such as autism say researchers in Liverpool. Using a range of scientific techniques, researchers from Liverpool...

Aerospace company set to communicate with NASA spacecraft

June 4, 2014
Aerospace company SkyCorp Inc have been given the go ahead to attempt to communicate with a 35-year-old NASA spacecraft. International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) was launched in 1978 to study the...

Celebrating Great British Science

June 3, 2014
Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution, has nominated Faraday’s electro-magnetic induction ring as his Great British Scientific breakthroughAfter about ten years of searching Michael...

Combating drug resistance in melanoma

June 2, 2014
Resistance to a treatment for advanced melanoma could be prevented by blocking a druggable family of proteins. Cancer Research UK scientists at the CRUK Manchester Institute have found that the...

Leap in modelling cardiovascular disease

May 30, 2014
American scientists have made a huge leap forward in genetic modelling after growing functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease for the first time. The Harvard team combined...

Neutron analysis reveals cancer drug clustering

May 30, 2014
Cancer pharmaceuticals currently have to be administered intravenously because of a tendency for solutions containing high concentrations of some antibodies to be highly viscous.Not only does this prevent large scale...

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