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Capturing images and data before the slides degrade into uselessness

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Microscopic and enigmatic, the tardigrades are little known to science. However, their remarkable ability to enter suspended animation and withstand extreme conditions may support important medical advances. Prof Carl Johansson […]

Making the Internet a safer place

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Back in May 2017, a huge cyberattack crippled several of the largest digital networks in the UK and US, paralysing over two hundred thousand computers. To combat such […]

In search of supermassive black hole feedback

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In this science research article: Professor Scannapieco’s research focuses on understanding feedback processes in galaxy formation and the evolution of the elements across cosmic time.

Professor Evan Scannapieco and his team at Arizona State University have been investigating the puzzle of why the largest galaxies in the universe, once the most active, have become dormant […]

Offshore wind power’s big break

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In this research article: Professor Barnes is developing a smaller, faster current breaker for offshore use to aid the integration of offshore wind farms into the National Grid.

The World Energy Council states that the capacity of offshore wind generation installed globally was around 12,000 MW by the end of 2015 with over 92 percent of these installations located […]

Supervolcano Forensics: unravelling the mysteries of the Earth’s biggest natural catastrophe

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In this research article Professor Shanaka de Silva's research focuses on supervolcano eruptions to gain an understanding of supervolvanoes and protect us in the future.

To many, if not most, the word ‘forensics’ invokes images of the very small – DNA, fingerprints, etc., – but for Professor Shanaka de Silva and his colleagues at the […]

The Sun’s crowning glory: observing the corona

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This science article explores Dr DeLuca’s recent project aimed to observe five magnetically sensitive coronal emission lines in the Sun’s corona during the recent 2017 solar eclipse.

How do you observe a faint light next to a very bright one? Put simply, with great difficulty. Our knowledge of the outer atmosphere of the Sun – called its […]

Unravelling the signalling cues controlling vertebrate reproductive behaviour

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This article explores how Dr Maruska uses fish models to understand the mechanisms of how the brain functions and adapts to constantly changing environment and physiological state.

How do vertebrate brains integrate information from external social cues and internal physiological states to produce appropriate behaviours? This is one of the big questions that Dr Karen Maruska and […]

Novel 3D microscope provides unprecedented moving images of biological processes

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This article explores the work of Dr Chunqiang Li from the University of Texas at El Paso has developed a novel 3D optical microscope that uses a spectrally shaped pulse laser.

Dr Chunqiang Li and his team of the University of Texas at El Paso have developed a novel three-dimensional (3D) optical microscope that uses a spectrally shaped pulse laser. Whilst […]

ACS: Taking chemistry to Hollywood

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This article focuses on: Dr Donna Nelson of the American Chemical Society is making it her mission to change the public perception and appreciation of science.

Science is everywhere. From your sofa to your car, pretty much any product you can think of would not exist without the work of science, and chemistry in particular. This […]

‘Remembering the Ladies’: Gender and Comedy in the Age of the American Revolution

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At the time of the American Revolution, women, along with African and Native Americans, were excluded from political participation. However, this did not prevent them from contributing outspokenly through other […]