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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
2nd December 2011

App store falls victim to hacker

So you can find a worm in your Apple
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

New iPhone disappoints

Fruitless Apple need a turnover
28th November 2011

Penguin crime rates rocket in Antarctica

BBC witness avian avarice
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.