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Scientists at the University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source have described a new chemical catalyst for producing methanol, a promising future ...
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A collaboration of scientists from the University of Nottingham, STFC’s ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Diamond Light Source, the University of ...
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The discovery of a synthetic molecule made up of 60 simple components able to reorganise themselves to produce new functions will lead to better ...
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Researchers from the University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source have discovered a new material, a Calcium hexaboride (CaB6) compound ...
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A collaboration of scientists from Diamond Light Source and the University of Reading has revealed the binding mechanism of a so-called ...
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Water, essential to life… or is it?
Proteins are large biological molecules that are synonymous with living things. They allow us to convert food ...
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In October 2010, a dam failure at an aluminium producing plant in western Hungary released around one million cubic metres of toxic red sludge ...
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G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the single most important drug target in the body because they are central to so many biological ...
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Diamond Light Source has recently played a key role in helping to reveal the exact structure of the most complex non-DNA molecular knot prepared ...
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Ice cores drilled from the frozen Antarctic landscape are made up of layer upon layer of frozen snow, dating back hundreds of thousands of years. ...
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Artificial heart valves have been used since the 1960s to replace natural heart valves damaged through disease. Each of four valves enables ...
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Thin multilayer structures comprising of thin layers of alternating elements or compounds find widespread technological applications – be it the ...
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With the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs becoming more common around the world, there is a need to investigate more efficient and robust ...
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Parchment has been used for recording historical information since at least the 2nd century BC and makes an important contribution to our nation’s ...
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Nanoparticles have been incorporated in many consumer products, however their safety and toxicity have not been clearly identified. This is made ...
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Huntington’s disease (HD) is a dominantly-inherited neuropsychiatric disorder. Typically the symptoms begin in adulthood, slowly progressing from ...
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During the course of their treatment, around half of cancer patients receive some type of radiation therapy. This therapy is widely used to target ...
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms that inhabit almost every environment on the planet, including the bodies of humans and animals. The cell ...
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A breakthrough in the fight against drug-resistant infections is one step closer following the discovery of the structure of NDM-1: a vicious form ...
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The University of Manchester museum herbarium was founded in 1860 and contains over a million specimens from all over the world, with collections ...