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Smallest atoms seen for the first time

A team of US scientists have achieved a genuine quantum leap in imaging - with the development of a technique that's enabled them to see, for the first time, the smallest atoms, in...
20th Jul 2008

The details in the devil - how a tumour is driving a sexual shift in Tasmania

Researchers in Australia have shown that the Tasmanian Devil, beleaguered in recent years by a transmissible fatal facial cancer, has responded to the disease threat by a dramatic ...
20th Jul 2008

Obsessive research highlights cause of OCD

Scientists in Cambridge have pinpointed changes in brain activity underlying obsessive compulsive disorder.  The discovery could lead to more accurate and earlier diagnosis of...
20th Jul 2008
 

The Latest Reaction to Allergy 'Vaccine'

The Swiss company Cytos has carried out large scale tests on an allergy  vaccine that might help the millions of people who suffer from conditions such as hayfever, asthma and...
19th Jul 2008
 

Drug reverses Alzheimers

Australian researchers, writing in Neuron this week, have identified a drug that can reverse the pathological effects of Alzheimers....
14th Jul 2008
 

Running rings around the moon

Scientists have built a computer simulation that can explain why the 15% or more of the small (<10 km) asteroids orbiting near Earth and beyond have miniature moons.  The d...
14th Jul 2008
 

Musicians make the Music what it is...

A paper in PLoS One this week shows that musicians are worth their weight in gold....
14th Jul 2008
 

Flick the Switch on Fear

Scientists have discovered what happens in the brains of animals when they become frightened. The work, which has focused on a pair of almond-sized areas of the brain cal...
14th Jul 2008

Fly Flu Clue to Combating Virus

Scientists have modified an influenza virus so that it can infect fruit flies, enabling them to identify over 100 new ways to fight flu in future....
13th Jul 2008

Fossilised Feathers Show Their True Colours

Over the years there have been hundreds of films and thousands of pictures made of dinosaurs, where scientists have carefully pieced together their shape and lifestyle. One critica...
13th Jul 2008

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