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Government funding for foot and mouth detection

January 26, 2009
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Southampton University spin-out Stratophase is to take the lead in a consortium formed to develop a field test for foot and mouth disease.
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Xtreme scientists conquer Everest to find lowest blood oxygen levels

January 21, 2009
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A team of mountaineering doctors from UCL have reported the lowest human blood oxygen levels ever recorded.
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A map like no other

January 21, 2009
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Astronomers from UK universities are to take on the mammoth challenge of mapping the distribution of stars and black holes from when the Universe was less than a billion years...
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Cheating ants ousted by chemistry

January 21, 2009
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The want to reproduce is the most natural instinct in the animal world except - it would seem - for ants.
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A giant leap for geology

January 21, 2009
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Physicists have cracked the mystery behind the strange and uncannily well-ordered hexagonal columns found at Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway and California's Devil's Postpile, using water, corn starch, and a heat...
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Alzheimer’s research suggests recovery possible

January 19, 2009
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Researchers have discovered that the brain's circuitry survives longer than previously thought in diseases of ageing such as Alzheimer's disease.
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Mystery of Mars is a washout

January 16, 2009
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Scientists have proposed that some of the least understood features on Mars were formed when large amounts of groundwater burst on to the surface.
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Bug suicide could reveal new antibiotic

January 14, 2009
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Scientists have come to understand the mysterious behaviour of kamikaze bacteria, and they say it could help them develop new kinds of antibiotics.
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Iron-age sacrifice is oldest brain in Britain

January 12, 2009
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The oldest surviving human brain in Britain, dating back at least 2000 years to the Iron Age, has been unearthed at the University of York.
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‘Flexible’ gibbon feet model for early humans

January 9, 2009
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Scientists have found that early humans could have walked successfully on a flexible flat foot, similar to modern day gibbons.
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Predicting the onset of depression

January 8, 2009
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Researchers from UCL have developed the first online tool that can be used to identify those who are at risk of depression.
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New ebola species threatens Africa

January 8, 2009
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Following an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in Uganda, scientists have isolated a new species of ebolavirus, genetically distinct from all other known species.
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