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Plants set ablaze to improve risk maps

October 9, 2009
A team of researchers have been setting alight plant life to test a new method that measures how different plant species respond to fire.

A simple pollution solution

October 9, 2009
Researchers from the University of Leeds have found that pedestrians can significantly reduce their traffic pollution intake by simply crossing the road.

Honeybee queens too conservative in the bedroom

October 7, 2009
The answer to the decline in honeybee numbers could lay in the bedroom habits of the queen say University of Leeds scientists.

Eureka moment offers neuron breakthrough

October 5, 2009
Fifty years after it was originally discovered, scientists finally have an idea of the function of a microscopic network of tubules found in neurons.

Is it time to change how we think of fossil fuels?

October 2, 2009
Battling with scientific consensus, one scientist says we have got it wrong when to comes to oil and gas

Hey scientist – just how do you think?

September 24, 2009
Dr Nancy J Nersessian has studied the cognitive processes that underlie scientific creativity by observing scientists at work in their laboratories – and she thinks she has the answer.

Notation for biologists

September 24, 2009
The first standard graphical notation for biology has recently been launched by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute. The notation aims to be as useful to biologists as...

Scientists turn off ‘obesity gene’ in mice

September 24, 2009
Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a gene that appears to control obesity in mice, and have shown that by switching the gene off, mice remained thin even...

Nanotube separation wins BNC new contract

September 23, 2009
Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) has signed its largest contract to date with an unnamed chemical company.

Space technology transfer handled by SFTC

September 21, 2009
STFC Innovations - the technology transfer office of the Science & Technology Facilities Council - has been selected to lead the European Space Agency’s tech transfer programme in the UK.

A light solution to amorous birds

September 18, 2009
Oxford University researchers have discovered how birds sense the lengthening days of early Spring and time when they breed, solving a 70-year mystery.

Mutated mitochondria promote premature ageing

September 16, 2009
Researchers have shown how mitochondria - popularly known as the cells' power plants - can be the seat of early ageing.

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