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Experts unlock the science of screams
Added: 16 Jul 2015
A team of researchers has identified a property that gives human screams their fear-inducing qualit…
3D printing to revolutionise food industry
Added: 14 Jul 2015
The use of 3D printers will radically change how and where food can be manufactured, academic sugge…

New particle discovered at Hadron Collider
Added: 14 Jul 2015
Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have announced the discovery of a new class of par…

Cannabis team makes further breakthrough
Added: 9 Jul 2015
A research team at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has managed to separate the medical benefits…

Ageing workforce affecting science
Added: 9 Jul 2015
There is an imbalance in the age groups of UK science sector employees, according to figures compil…

Genomics is 'big data beast'
Added: 7 Jul 2015
The field of genomics has been dubbed “the alpha beast in the big data forest” by a group of expert…

Experts perfect ambient bioprinting
Added: 3 Jul 2015
A team of researchers at the University of Nottingham has bioprinted a ’play dough-like’ material c…
Food fraud innovators wanted
Added: 1 Jul 2015
Research body Fera Science is urging academics, research firms and small and medium sized enterpris…

High-tech microscope displays nuclear pores
Added: 26 Jun 2015
Researchers at the University of Zurich have used cryo-electron microscopes to display the pores in…

MIT chip harvests IoT potential
Added: 23 Jun 2015
An ultralow-power circuit developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)…

Manchester makes biofuel breakthrough
Added: 22 Jun 2015
Scientists at the University of Manchester have made a discovery that could lead to the development…

Scientists claim 'world's thinnest graphene lightbulb'
Added: 15 Jun 2015
A team of scientists from the Columbia University School of Engineering, Seoul National University …

Vaccines network launched in UK
Added: 11 Jun 2015
The UK is set to develop a £20 million vaccines network in an effort to combat the outbreak of dead…

Scientists reveal ALS drug target
Added: 8 Jun 2015
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - commonly referred to as motor neurone disease (MND) in the UK…

Tuning friction to develop 'nanomachines'
Added: 4 Jun 2015
Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a technique that simul…
Internet of Things research hub for UK
Added: 2 Jun 2015
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has today opened a competition to de…

X-ray lens magnifies nanoworld
Added: 1 Jun 2015
Scientists at Germany’s renowned X-ray institute, DESY, have created a lens that produces sharper i…

ESRF initiates synchrotron upgrade
Added: 29 May 2015
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France has today unveiled plans to …

Alzheimer's drug may 'prevent early stages'
Added: 19 May 2015
Scientists at Lancaster University have developed a drug that may prevent the early stages of Alzhe…

Many probiotics "contaminated" with gluten
Added: 15 May 2015
Inaccurate labelling on probiotic products could be a potential hazard for patients with gluten-rel…