University College London space scientists are involved in two out of four missions that have been selected by the European Space Agency to compete for a launch opportunity at the start of the 2020s.
Space Exploration
Mar 3, 2011
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Harmful algae could be producing substances which affect reproduction in organisms with similar genetic characteristics as humans according to groundbreaking new research.
Environment
Mar 3, 2011
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Today, the EGNOS Safety-of-Life signal was formally declared available to aviation. For the first time, space-based navigation signals have become officially usable for the critical task of vertically guiding aircraft during ...
Space Exploration
Mar 3, 2011
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A new website that explains why humans have the same type of eye as an octopus, and how animals separated by millions of years have evolved in the same way, has been launched by a team of scientists at Cambridge University.
Evolution
Mar 3, 2011
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A tremendous amount of genetics research has been done in flies and tiny worms, in part because scientists have good tools for tweaking these creatures’ DNA. Now, by adapting a powerful method of RNA interference for ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 3, 2011
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It was advent of the private bedroom, modern suburb and social housing, says Dr. Lief Jerram, which tamed a ‘free-for-all’, widespread in many Western cities before the First World War.
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2011
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All night long, bats swoop over our landscape consuming insects, but they do this in secret, hidden from our view. Until recently, scientists have been unable to bring their ecosystem out of the dark but thanks to new genetic ...
Ecology
Mar 3, 2011
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Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations of the giant planet around β Pictoris. Discovered in 2009, this planet, called β Pictoris b, has now been detected again with the NaCo instrument on the VLT. ...
Astronomy
Mar 3, 2011
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An enzyme viewed as an executioner, because it can push cells to commit suicide, may actually short circuit a second form of cell death, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered.
Biotechnology
Mar 3, 2011
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When it comes to the federal budget, the public is on a different page than either the House of Representatives or the Obama Administration – with a different set of priorities and a greater willingness to cut spending ...
Economics & Business
Mar 3, 2011
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