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Tractor beam created

Scientists have created a Star Trek style tractor beam (but it's very small) ...

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The Weak Manifesto?

Science may ‘matter’, as Mark Henderson argues, but bringing it into greater contact with society will amplify its flaws as well as its plus points…

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Celebrate World Radio Day

On World Radio Day we should remember that the airwaves remain a vital communication medium for the developing world.

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All About Corals

Crazy over coral. Passionate about polyps. Eliot Barford tells us why Darwin was right to call coral reefs the 'oases of the ocean'.

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Genes, beer and psychosis

Stop! Before you drink that pint, have you considered a genetic test? Susceptibility to developing mental illness from alcohol could come from genes ...

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Hearing Voices

What is it like to hear voices in your head? Is it even possible to understand such an affliction?

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The Tortuous Birth of the Tyre

The story of how the pneumatic tyre emerged on bikes illustrates how humans can shape technologies in whatever ways meet their needs...

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Lightsabre: Weapon of the future?

Think lightsabres are only possible in a galaxy far, far away? If we replace the photons with plasma, they may not be so out of reach...

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What time is it?

Time is so integral to our experience of life that we could be forgiven for thinking it is a simple concept. But many physicists are intrigued by the question of what exactly time is...

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Running for Alzheimer’s

Why do we run for charity? Christina Clark explains how her grandmother's illness prompted her to put on her trainers...

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Coralbots: swarming to save reefs

How robots could be used to help restore the natural beauty of coral reefs...

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Extremes

Exploring the hottest, coldest, biggest and smallest things in the universe...

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You’re so ‘OCD’

Even simple tasks like leaving the house can be arduous for OCD-sufferers. But misuse of the label can have negative effects, argues Chrissie Clark...

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Are humans still evolving?

Evolution is genetic change over time but seven billion individuals along with artificial selection pressures could rescript that ...

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‘Smart bombs’ target cancer

Monoclonal antibodies attached to cytotoxic drugs act as homing missiles that destroy cancers from their core ...

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Super sniffers

Dogs are already used to detect diabetes sufferers and illegal drugs but their acme noses might also be able to sniff out cancer ...

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New Earth Science blog

When I tell people I am an Earth scientist, I am generally faced with the amused exclamation: “So… you love rocks!” ...

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Can you hear me?

Cochlear implants return hearing to deaf people quicker if the brain area they remap is already highly active ...

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Zebrafish: neuroscience heroes

Zebrafish are the unsung heroes of neuroscience, participating in more research in this area than any other animal model …

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Fickle Fungi and more…

From the last two weeks we've got the good, the bad and the fungi, the commerce of biodiversity and life as a commonplace ...

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