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Plugging the power leak for fusion reactions

August 6, 2020
News
Scientists have found a novel way to prevent pesky magnetic bubbles in plasma from interfering with fusion reactions - delivering a potential way to improve the performance of fusion energy...
Physics & Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics, Energy, Particle Physics, Physics, Theoretical Physics
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Game review: Evolution

August 1, 2020
Insight
Details Age 12+2 - 660 minutesNorth Star Games Traffic Lights Educational use – 2/6Scientific accuracy – 3/6Enjoyment – 5/6
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis
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Serving virtual reality Raspberry Pi to flies

July 15, 2020
News
The Raspberry Pi Virtual Reality system (PiVR) is a versatile tool for presenting virtual reality environments to small, freely moving animals (such as flies and fish larvae), according to a...
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Developmental Biology, Zoology
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Improving animal research: New ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines released

July 15, 2020
Insight
A previous version of the ARRIVE guidelines for the rigorous reporting of animal studies was published in 2010 by the UK-based science organisation, the NC3Rs. Now, ten years later, new...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Comment And Analysis, Developmental Biology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Policy
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Extinct Oligocene dolphins were apex predators

July 9, 2020
News
A report in the journal Current Biology, offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in what is now South Carolina. The...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Oceanography, Paleobiology
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Plastic-eating superworms host biodegrading gut bacteria

May 29, 2020
News
Resembling giant mealworms, superworms (Zophobas atratus) are beetle larvae that are often sold in pet stores as feed for reptiles, fish and birds. In addition to their relatively large size...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Molecular Biology
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Listen to the song of the Arctic unicorn (video)

May 26, 2020
News
With the help of Inuit hunters, geophysicists recently recorded the various calls, buzzes, clicks and whistles of narwhals as they summered in a Greenland fjord. The recordings help scientists better...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Marine Biology, Oceanography
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What’s your poison?

May 10, 2020
Feature
Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-master Steve Trim explains how evolution can give us a Pharmaceutical short-cut.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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We need to talk about live wet-markets

April 6, 2020
Insight
How do we make sure this doesn’t happen ever again? How do we reduce novel zoonotics in our species?
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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Game review: Wingspan

March 1, 2020
Insight
Details Age 10+1-5 players40-70 minutesStonemaier games Traffic Lights Educational use – 4/6Scientific accuracy – 6/6Enjoyment – 5/6
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis
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Business competition to support biotech

February 28, 2020
News
Automated drug discovery company Arctoris has opened entries to it’s global business competition for drug discovery entrepreneurs.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry
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Caught in the long grass

February 19, 2020
Feature
Forensic botany, the use of plants as evidence in serious crime cases, is a little-known specialist area despite having its origins centuries ago. We spoke to Mark Spencer, one of...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Forensics, In Depth
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“It’s now beyond doubt: we need to reimagine the way research works”

February 18, 2020
Insight
Wellcome recently conducted a survey to explore how scientists felt about research culture – what they found doesn’t make for pleasant reading. Here Beth Thompson Head of UK & EU...
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Comment And Analysis
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The new frontline

February 13, 2020
Feature
Using big data analysis and knowledge networks is the new frontier in combating infectious disease in crops says Dr Kim Hammond-Kosack
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Food & Bev, In Depth
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Getting into the lab, via the stomach

January 26, 2020
Insight
Of all the incentives lab supply companies have in their arsenal – there is one guaranteed way they can entice you to buy their products…
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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More for less

January 17, 2020
From monitoring cow burps to novel herbicides, cutting-edge agricultural science not only aims to feed the world but also, by adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, do it a sustainable way
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Food & Bev
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Ancient global warming puzzle solved

January 14, 2020
News
Scientists from Cardiff University have shed new light on the Earth’s climate behaviour during the last known period of global warming over 14 million years ago.
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Environment
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Time to be selective

December 15, 2019
Feature
As the AMR crisis looms large, we would do well to look beyond classic drug targets says Dr Thomas Böttcher. Concentrating on bacterial signalling molecules could hold the keys, not...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, In Depth, Medical/Health, Policy
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Why we need a science of science

November 25, 2019
Feature
At the launch of a new initiative to understand how research is funded, practiced and evaluated, Professor Richard Jones has been wondering about scientific productivity. How it is defined, and...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Atmospheric Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, In Depth, Physics, Policy
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Wellcome leads genome-mapping project

November 8, 2019
News
The Wellcome Sanger Institute is among 10 organisations that are part of a project to map genomes of all known life on the British Isles.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment
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