A team of doctors and scientists from the University of Oxford have tested a tissue oxygen monitor in microgravity for the first time. Dr Thomas Smith, who leads Oxford's Aerospace Medicine Research Group and led the research, ...
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2015
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Skin bacteria could be the best defense that frogs and salamanders have for protection against dangerous diseases like chytrid fungus.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 22, 2015
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A team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Philippines, recently published a study unlocking the secret to just how rice seeds might be able ...
Biotechnology
Sep 22, 2015
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The world's first entirely light-based memory chip to store data permanently has been developed by material scientists at Oxford University and University of Münster in collaboration with scientists at Karlsruhe and Exeter. ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 22, 2015
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Commercial fluorescence activated cell sorters have been highly successful in the past 40 years at rapidly and accurately aiding medical diagnosis and biological studies, but they are bulky and too expensive ($200,000 -$1,000,000) ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 22, 2015
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An international team of scientists has discovered a new lineage of extinct plankton-feeding sharks, Pseudomegachasma, that lived in warm oceans during the age of the dinosaurs nearly 100 million years ago. The fossil sharks ...
Archaeology
Sep 22, 2015
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In 1952, the legendary British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing proposed a model that assumes formation of complex patterns through chemical interaction of two diffusing reagents. Russian scientists managed to ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 22, 2015
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In deserts and other arid lands, microbes often form very thin top layers on soil known as biocrusts, which behave a bit like Rip Van Winkle. He removed himself from a stressful environment by sleeping for decades, and awoke ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 22, 2015
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San Francisco Bay is contaminated with widespread pollution from billions of tiny pieces of plastic in greater concentrations than the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay and other major U.S. bodies of water, according to a groundbreaking ...
Environment
Sep 22, 2015
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The first look at Burberry's latest collection won't be seen on the runway. Instead, the fashions will be previewed on Snapchat in what the designer is calling "the first ever" Snapchat fashion show.
Business
Sep 22, 2015
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