Science & Tech Archive
7th February 2012
A panda eats, shoots and leaves to extinction?
Claims we should accept that some species are too dire to save gain support
3rd December 2011
Mock Mars mission safely ‘lands’
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: six men together locked in isolation for 500 days
28th November 2011
Did Jobs’ rejection of conventional medicine cost him his life?
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011
28th November 2011
Handheld Projectors for Multiplayer Games
Disney to embark upon a
‘whole new world’ for handheld gaming
28th November 2011
Crackberry to Crashberry
Blackberry users can enjoy the free apps and return to using their “crackberries”.
28th November 2011
Perfect drug combinations evolved at University of Manchester
Researchers at the university evolve drugs to be harder, better, faster, stronger
28th November 2011
Branson’s Virgin Galactic boldly goes where no entrepreneur has gone before
Branson aims for the space with an ‘out of this world’ project
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28th November 2011
Experiment which broke speed of light being rerun
Neutrino’s broke the speed limit, so physicists will try the test again
28th November 2011
Man(chester)’s Best Friend
University awarded funding for major study into the relationship between man and dog
6th November 2011
New hope for asthma sufferers
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.
6th November 2011
Invisibility cloaks becoming reality
Science fiction’s cloaking devices may soon be realised as researchers use carbon nanotubes to deflect light.
6th November 2011
Bacteria Lessons for Glastonbury festival-goers
Glastonbury festival fans were contaminated with a fluorescent virus by University of Manchester researchers, in a unique interactive event to teach about microbiology.
6th November 2011
Steve Jobs: a legacy
The life and career of the late Steve Jobs was influential, prolific and truly avant-garde.
6th November 2011
Which mobile operating system?
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?
6th November 2011
Fundamental physics law broken
The past century of science may be soon declared as misguided, if the results from CERN where the speed of light has seemingly been exceeded, can not be explained.
6th November 2011
Nobel Prize winners earn acclaim for seminal research
The 2011 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Medicine and Chemistry respectively were announced in October, awarding the international researchers acclaim for their leading research.
21st October 2011
Embryonic stem cell treatment for blindness
Potential treatment for a degenerate blindness found in the form of embryonic stem cells.