Testing diesel engines
A team at The University of Manchester is testing a Volkswagen diesel engine to try to get an accurate picture of how polluting it is.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 6, 2015
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Want to 'see' climate change? Check your thermometer
Scientists often use satellites, supercomputers or high-tech arrays of instruments to show how the climate is changing.
Environment
Oct 6, 2015
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It's inevitable that the internet changes how we relate – what matters is how
Breaking up is never easy, and while 20 years ago there may well have been little or no post break-up contact between exes, 21st century technology – from social media to Whatsapp – means there are many new ways to open ...
Internet
Oct 6, 2015
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Wheat choice has lasting effect on soil health and yield
Scientists investigating how to control take-all, a fungus that lives in soil and infects wheat roots to cause disease, have discovered that different varieties of wheat have distinct and lasting impacts on the health of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 6, 2015
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Simple detection of magnetic skyrmions
At present, tiny magnetic whirls – so called skyrmions – are discussed as promising candidates for bits in future robust and compact data storage devices. At the University of Hamburg these exotic magnetic structures ...
Nanophysics
Oct 6, 2015
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Super yellow blends for light efficiency
A blend of two polymers can be used to boost the efficiency of LEDs (light-emitting diodes), according to a research study published in the journal Applied Materials Today. Richard Friend of the Cavendish Laboratory, at the ...
Materials Science
Oct 6, 2015
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Protein reactions identified with subatomic resolution—why some switch proteins are slower than others
Using subatomic resolution, researchers have gained insights into the dynamic modus operandi of two switch proteins which are responsible for the import of compounds into the nucleus and for cell growth. The team headed by ...
Biochemistry
Oct 6, 2015
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200-terawatt laser brings new extremes in heat, pressure to X-ray experiments
A newly upgraded high-power laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will blaze new trails across many fields of science by recreating the universe's most extreme conditions, such as those ...
General Physics
Oct 6, 2015
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Student team engineers E. coli to adhere to colon cancer cells
Billions of harmless Escherichia coli bacteria thrive in the human gut, but why aren't the microbes flushed out of the intestines through digestion? Bacteria like E. coli produce pili, appendages resembling long strands of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 6, 2015
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The DAVINCI spacecraft
It's no secret that there has been a resurgence in interest in space exploration in recent years. Much of the credit for this goes to NASA's ongoing exploration efforts on Mars, which in the past few years have revealed things ...
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2015
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