Scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and UCL have converted a breast milk protein into an artificial virus that kills bacteria on contact.
Biochemistry
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Europe wants to reduce its needs for raw materials and raise the level of recycling of resources in the solar power industry. If this project is successful, greenhouse gas emissions from solar panel manufacture will fall ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 15, 2016
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Jason-3, an international mission led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to continue U.S.-European satellite measurements of the topography of the ocean surfaces, is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg ...
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2016
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Eureka Park, Las Vegas: not a housing estate, but "the hall of hopes and dreams" – aisle after aisle of entrepreneurs showing off their wares as part of the Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest tech gadget show in the ...
Business
Jan 15, 2016
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As Wikipedia turns 15, volunteer editors worldwide will be celebrating with themed cakes and edit-a-thons aimed at filling holes in poorly covered topics. It's remarkable that a user-editable encyclopedia project that allows ...
Internet
Jan 15, 2016
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Led by François Fuks from the ULB's Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics and the ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), researchers have revealed for the first time the key role played by one of the RNA letters, hmC or hydroxymethylation. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 15, 2016
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As South West residents count the cost of last week's devastating bushfires Murdoch University scientists are working on a model to help predict future bushfire threats in the region.
Environment
Jan 15, 2016
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Part of dinosaurs' popularity has to be their fascinating, bizarre appearance. There's the Stegosaurus with the famous row of plates down its back, the Triceratops with its giant frilled skull, and the "duck-billed" hadrosaurs ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 15, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at the University of Manchester in the U.K has developed a tunable teraherz laser using the unique properties of graphene plasmons. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
When the accelerators are asleep, the technical teams get to work. Since 14 December, no particles have circulated in any part of CERN's accelerator chain, from the particle source to the intermediate rings and the Large ...
General Physics
Jan 15, 2016
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