A method to prepare important fluorine-containing chemicals directly from the mineral...
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06 February 2011
Scientists have developed the cellular equivalent of a shrink-wrapping system which is capable of packaging up...
30 January 2011
Biological clocks play an essential role in physiology and in controlling behaviour – from regulating sleep cycles in...
30 January 2011
This week teams in both Hong Kong and Chicago have found that the levels of activity in two specific areas of the brain...
30 January 2011
Researchers in America this week have dramatically enlarged the catalogue of known genes which allow an organism to...
30 January 2011
Animals come to better decisions more quickly in larger groups, according to research published in the journal PNAS...
25 January 2011
Data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, has been used by amateur astronomers worldwide to spot...
25 January 2011
Red Dwarf stars seem to be far more active than previously thought - good news for astronomers, but terrible news for...
25 January 2011
This month, researchers working on the Planck project released their first science data - including new galaxy clusters...
25 January 2011
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed an extremely close flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, returning incredible...
25 January 2011
Does Jupiter protect Earth from asteroid impact? A new study evaluates the myth that the giant planet acts as our...
25 January 2011
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III has released some incredible images of the night sky, and announced plans to image...
23 January 2011
There are many examples of organisms engaging in agriculture in the natural world, ranging from humans that grow wheat...
23 January 2011
Researchers this week have found that, for fact-based subjects, practising a retrieval exercise produces better test...
23 January 2011
A mouse given a human immune system has enabled scientists to take the first steps in testing a new treatment for HIV,...
23 January 2011
To keep track of time, our minds exploit as many clues in the environment as they can get hold of...
16 January 2011
A quicker cheaper way of making computer chips has been developed that allows small numbers of a chip to be made...
16 January 2011
Tougher glasses have been developed than ever before that can both be strong and impact resistant
16 January 2011
Sufferers of a heart condition that runs in families and can cause sudden cardiac death, especially amongst the young,...
16 January 2011
The problem of how we might feed the earth’s population in the future has come under further scrutiny this week with...
14 January 2011
Photons that can be stored and emitted from a crystal could be the next step in realising quantum communication. It...
11 January 2011
Scientists have identified factors that make for a successful and sustainable fishery
11 January 2011
For the first time, fish larvae have been tracked drifting over 100 miles showing that marine protected areas can...
10 January 2011
A method invented by nanotechnologists at The University of Texas in Dallas has been used for the first time to create...
09 January 2011
For many, just the distant sound of a dental drill is enough to elicit a cold sweat, let alone having to endure it...