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• Steeling the Show Mon, 15th Oct 2012 What is steel? How have the production methods for making it changed over hundreds of yea...

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• I Remember It Well... Mon, 24th Sep 2012 Your memories may be less reliable than you think. Research has shown that not only do ou...

• Water and Worldwide Wellbeing Mon, 24th Sep 2012 Fresh water is a precious resource. How can the use and abuse of this resource exacerbate...

• A Traveller's Guide to Bed Bugs Thu, 20th Sep 2012 Toby Fountain does something rather strange when he checks into a hotel: bags deposited u...

• Making life better on a global scale Mon, 17th Sep 2012 What can chemistry do to make a greener future? Aaron Page envisages a carbon-neutral fut...

• Medicines that make you smarter Mon, 10th Sep 2012 Over the last 40 years, drugs have been developed that, as well as performing their origi...

• Bigfoot: The Nitrogen Problem Tue, 14th Aug 2012 Less than 5% of the nitrogen added to crops to feed animals ends up as meat in our mouths...

• Bright Future for Solar Cells Sun, 15th Jul 2012 In a world with ever-increasing energy demands and pollution, clean and abundant energy i...

• Mushroom Magic Thu, 21st Jun 2012 The psychedelic drug psilocybin, the active principal of magic mushrooms, was once though...

• The International Meteorite Market Fri, 25th May 2012 Meteorites on the open market routinely fetch a higher price than the equivalent weight o...

• No Smoke Detectors in the Sea Sat, 18th Feb 2012 Ocean deadzones are triggered by nitrogen-fuelled bursts of microorganisms. So how does t...

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