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High density asteroid our ancestor?
Published 20th Nov 2011
In July 2010, the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft flew by the asteroid 21 Lutetia, the largest asteroid visited by mankind until the Dawn mission went into orbit around Vesta in July 2011.Read more...
The Miracle of Penecillin: Credit where credit is due
Published 5th Dec 2011
In WW2, Hitler’s forces are said to have killed around sixty million people. Penicillin is believed to have saved a staggering eighty million.Read more...
Stem Cells, coming on in leaps and bounds
Published 21st Nov 2011
For the first time scientists have managed to create artificial blood cells from embryonic stem cells, which could revolutionise transfusion science! It’s all thanks to the collaborative efforts of scientists at Advanced Cell Technology, Massachusetts and the University of Illinois. A successful blood cell is one that can carry large amounts of oxygen, while withstanding the rise in acidity experienced during physical activity.Read more...
Surrey Speed
Published 21st Nov 2011
Formula Student’s James Johnstone (President) and Adam Hoskin (Technical Director) have given some details on the car they are planning to enter into this year’s Formula Student competition, which sees universities worldwide compete against each other. The car uses a carbon fibre monocoque chassis, the designer of which now works for McLaren.Read more...
Mental Bisexuals
Published 5th Dec 2011
In a new psychological study (Lindley et al, 2011), it has been found that women who identify themselves as bisexual are more depressed than lesbians or ‘straight’ women.Read more...
Sceptics climate change argument doubtful
Published 20th Nov 2011
For years those sceptical of climate change have claimed that a global rise in temperature is normal. However, a recently published study shows that simultaneous warming events of the northern and southern hemispheres have not occurred periodically over the past 20,000 years.Read more...
Water Parks around Jupiter?
Published 5th Dec 2011
NASA’s Galileo satellite has suggested underground lakes on Jupiter’s moon Europa; the smallest of four moons discovered by Galileo in 1610.Read more...
Jawbone discovered in Kent over 40,000 years old
Published 21st Nov 2011
A bone discovered in Kent’s Cavern in 1927 has recently been dated and found to be between 41,000 and 44,000 years old, making it the earliest known modern human being in North-western Europe. The bone is part of the upper jaw called the Maxilla and was previously thought to be 35,000 years old but with the use of Bayesian analysis, researchers were able to use the age of bones found near to the depth of the fragment to get a more accurate date.Read more...
Childhood IQ Linked to Drug Use
Published 5th Dec 2011
A recent study published in the ‘British Medical Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health’ shows that drug abuse in adult life is linked to IQ in childhood.Read more...
New surveillance system could be used for indiscriminate monitoring
Published 21st Nov 2011
The Met police have acquired a new piece of technology to monitor mobile phone communications, which also has the potential to track individual’s movements in real time. This surveillance system emits a signal across roughly ten square kilometres and creates a false network that mobile phones try to connect to.Read more...