Researchers from Keele University and an international team of astronomers have reported for the first time that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a 'blaze of glory' that was witnessed on Earth in 1670.
Astronomy
Oct 8, 2018
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A 15-yr-old schoolboy has discovered a new planet orbiting a star 1000 light years away in our galaxy. Tom Wagg was doing work-experience at Keele University when he spotted the planet by finding a tiny dip in the light of ...
Astronomy
Jun 10, 2015
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Aluminium - the most abundant metal and third most abundant element of the Earth's crust - has no known biological function and is a recognised environmental toxin. Human exposure to aluminium is implicated in a number of ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2013
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There seems to be significant confusion about what happened in the British parliament when MPs discussed a proposed amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to formally recognise animal sentience. But where science is concerned, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2017
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Aluminium is arguably the planet's most significant ecotoxin. It is certainly its most abundant being the third most abundant element in the Earth's crust. Life on Earth as we know it today exists in spite of aluminium and ...
Materials Science
Aug 2, 2016
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Researchers from Keele University's Medical School have developed a game-based approach to teaching doctors in training, which helps to improve their learning about how drugs work.
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2018
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An online tool has, for the first time, revealed a common literary technique in the Book of Genesis that has remained hidden in the text for millennia.
Computer Sciences
Feb 20, 2013
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Men are almost as likely as women to want children, and they feel more isolated, depressed, angry and sad than women if they don't have them, a new study says.
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2013
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As reported by BBC News, the total number of extra-solar planets known through the efforts of worldwide astronomers has just passed 1000. Keele astronomers pushed it over that number by announcing 12 new planets from the ...
Astronomy
Oct 24, 2013
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In 2006, Nature published a paper describing how stem cells could be used to restore sight in blind mice. This study, and similar subsequent studies, created a lot of excitement about the potential of stem cells to cure blindness ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 1, 2018
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