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25 May 2011
By studying the wobbles of a compound called ytterbium flouride in an electric field, scientists have discovered the...
23 May 2011
Scientists have developed a sugar-fuelled chemical filter to clean up contaminated water.
15 May 2011
Researchers in Seattle and Washington have solved an “enormous jigsaw puzzle” to design two novel proteins that bind to...
13 March 2011
Scientists have added a sparkle to the arsenal of anti-tumour agents by successfully demonstrating that diamonds can...
13 March 2011
A group of Brazilian researchers led by Renata Castro, have found that the classic comedy banana skin is actually very...
06 March 2011
With a breakthrough that could hasten the arrival of a new generation of even more powerful microprocessors, scientists...
06 March 2011
The origins of life on earth are a hotly debated topic among scientists. One theory suggests that meteorites brought...
30 January 2011
Researchers in America this week have dramatically enlarged the catalogue of known genes which allow an organism to...
10 January 2011
A method invented by nanotechnologists at The University of Texas in Dallas has been used for the first time to create...
19 December 2010
In case you were thinking of shunning turkey for Christmas dinner this year and chowing down on hamburgers, researchers...
19 December 2010
The discovery of bacteria that appear to thrive on toxic arsenic may have implications for our understanding of the...
21 November 2010
A lot of us like a nice glass of wine at the end of the day, but for around 500 million people in the world, that’s not...
17 October 2010
Research is discovering cheaper alternatives to gold plated connectors...
19 September 2010
In a move that could hold the key to better drugs to beat a range of mood disorders including depression, French...
25 July 2010
A new more efficient way of converting carbon-dioxide back to carbon has been invented that uses solar energy very...
11 April 2010
One of the hottest areas of materials science is the development of composite materials that combine the useful...
07 March 2010
Millions of tonnes of methane locked up beneath the shoreline of Siberia are becoming unstable and escaping into the...
17 January 2010
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15 November 2009
A European team of scientists may have discovered a shortcut to finding distant planets orbiting far-off stars - you...
15 November 2009
Don't judge a book by its cover - judge it by the smell instead!
20 September 2009