The 2011 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Medicine and Chemistry respectively were announced in October, awarding the international researchers acclaim for their leading research.

A new asthma drug developed allows patients to avoid the use of steroids, but has been deemed too expensive to be prescribed to patients by the NHS.

Science fiction’s cloaking devices may soon be realised as researchers use carbon nanotubes to deflect light.

Glastonbury festival fans were contaminated with a fluorescent virus by University of Manchester researchers, in a unique interactive event to teach about microbiology.

The life and career of the late Steve Jobs was influential, prolific and truly avant-garde.

RIM’s BlackBerry, Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android all claim to have the best operating system, but with such different approaches, which is truly the best?

A man who encouraged rioting in Manchester using Facebook has been sentenced to three years in prison

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It is with great pleasure that I can say the season of the apple is upon us. It has come to that time of year when shops and markets nationwide are brimming with wonderful Worcester, Discovery, Crab Apple and other varieties that are all harvested in early autumn. Year-round international imports render our local varieties […]

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Material which makes up shells and bones recreated in a lab.

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Generating power by putting particles together rather than breaking them apart is now closer than ever.

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Potential treatment for a degenerate blindness found in the form of embryonic stem cells.

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