University of Manchester
HPV vaccine makes girls more cautious about sex
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly 80% of girls say that having the HPV vaccine makes them think twice about the risks of having sex, according to a University of Manchester study published in the British Journal of ...
Oct 27, 2009 |
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One tonne 'Baby' goes mobile
(PhysOrg.com) -- It took a one-tonne computer the size of a room to run a simple mathematics program in 1948 - but now computer scientists have made it available on your mobile.
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Tuesday wettest day of week in Manchester, suggests new analysis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tuesday is the wettest day of the week, suggests new analysis of rainfall data for Manchester.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile phone subscriptions in Africa have defied the world economic crisis by growing faster than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to a United Nations report published ...
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Virtual solution to driving phobias
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Mutant gene's true effect revealed - giving new therapy hope
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have revealed how a mutant gene that causes a connective tissue disease resulting in dwarfism does so by significantly affecting the inside of cells - opening up new therapy strategies that involve ...
Oct 19, 2009 |
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UM Professor: Consumers 'key part of solution' to global warming
(PhysOrg.com) -- Consumers can have a major impact on the world’s efforts to reduce global warming, a major report has concluded.
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Physicist gets buzz from better bee behaviour model
(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of Manchester has paved the way for better research into how honey bees choose where to live.
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Early warning system could keep lights on
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Manchester are developing 'early warning systems' that could prevent power blackouts in the UK.
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Forgotten treasures shed new light on Little Grey Rabbit author
(PhysOrg.com) -- A suffragette poem, penned by a world-famous children’s author and kept privately at a University of Manchester Hall of Residence for over a century, has been made available online.
Oct 12, 2009 |
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'Blue Stonehenge' discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have released an artist’s impression of what a second stone circle found a mile from Stonehenge might have looked like.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Physicists seek to keep next-gen colliders in one piece
(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling huge electromagnetic forces that have the potential to destroy the next generation of particle accelerators is the subject of a new paper by a University of Manchester physicist.
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Stretching opens up possibilities for graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers say they have found a simple way to improve the semiconducting properties of the world’s thinnest material - by giving it a good tug.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Cell discovery opens new chapter in drug development
Scientists have uncovered new details about how the cells in our bodies communicate with each other and their environment: findings that are of fundamental importance to human biology.
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Smart food sensors could push down price of fruit 'n' veg
The price of fresh food in shops and supermarkets could be reduced if innovative work at The University of Manchester to develop intelligent low-cost sensors is successful.
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 07, 2009 |
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