A method to prepare important fluorine-containing chemicals directly from the mineral...
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27 February 2011
“Self-healing” is not a word that people usually associate with cancer. But researchers studying a very unusual and...
27 February 2011
The bones of people who died up to a hundred years ago are being used in the development of new treatments for chronic...
25 February 2011
The mission Stardust-NExT, to study comet Tempel 1, made it's closest ever flyby, observing the surface of the...
25 February 2011
Astronomers using the Gemini telescope have "weighed" the black hole at the centre of the M87 Galaxy. They...
25 February 2011
NASA's WISE mission, or Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has spotted the bow shock of a runaway star...
25 February 2011
A candidate galaxy spotted at a red shift of 10, likely to be the most distant object observed so far, gives us a...
25 February 2011
NASA's STEREO mission - a pair of twin probes monitoring the Sun, have now reached 180 degree separation, allowing...
20 February 2011
First picture of the Earth's plasma tail has been taken, and it is more dynamic than expected.
20 February 2011
Mysterious moving stones in a Death Vally lake bed may have been solved.
20 February 2011
Alaskan black bears do not hibernate in the same way as other, smaller, mammals and an understanding of how they...
20 February 2011
An isolated population of people in Ecuador could hold the genetic key to a long and healthy life, according to...
13 February 2011
A new way of seeing inside the body has been developed that uses normal light
13 February 2011
Scientists have confirmed what your grandmother always told you - oily fish really can keep you healthier.
13 February 2011
Seeking to overcome the poor attendances at cardiac rehab classes by patients recovering from heart attacks and surgery...
13 February 2011
The relentless onward march of microbial resistance means that the arsenal of antibiotics that are effective against...
13 February 2011
High temperature cables can save weight and energy, but the problem is they are brittle, and difficult to get around...
13 February 2011
This week scientists from China have identified an environmentally-friendly way of making acrylic acid. Typically,...
13 February 2011
Researchers have found that this species of early hominin had rigid, arched feet. This means that afarensis would have...
11 February 2011
Oysters are considered to be a culinary delicacy, but a new piece of research has found that 85% of all oyster reefs...
07 February 2011
Papua New Guinea gives go ahead for the world's first deep-sea mine. Expert calls for urgent conservation plans.
06 February 2011
The field of arterial graft surgery looks set to take a big leap forward thanks to a breakthrough by US scientists....
06 February 2011
Researchers in Australia have come up with the electrical equivalent of a thinking cap, capable of broadening the mind...
06 February 2011
Researchers this week have reported in the journal Science the existence of a new subspecies of mosquito, that is...
06 February 2011
Researchers at the University of Leeds have found that an Amazonian drought in 2010 was more severe that one billed as...