Spin with a new twist
10 October 2014Scientists have successfully demonstrated a new way to control the “spin” of an electron – the natural intrinsic angular momentum of electrons which could underpin...
Mapping the weather on WASP-43b
09 October 2014Two new studies have been used to make the most detailed weather map for a planet outside the solar system, where typical daytime highs reach...
Understanding the bushmeat market: why do people risk infection from bat meat?
09 October 2014Ebola, as with many emerging infections, is likely to have arisen due to man’s interaction with wild animals – most likely the practice of hunting...
Hybrid materials could smash the solar efficiency ceiling
09 October 2014A new method for transferring energy from organic to inorganic semiconductors could boost the efficiency of widely used inorganic solar cells.
Price gap between more and less healthy foods grows
09 October 2014Novel use of UK national data finds a growing gap between the prices of more and less healthy foods between 2002 and 2012. Healthy foods...
Scott Polar Research Institute awarded £500,000 from Heritage Lottery Fund
09 October 2014Through its Collecting Cultures programme, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced a £5 million funding package which will benefit 23 museums, libraries and archives...
Astronomers discover the ‘Mighty Mouse’ of stellar remnants
08 October 2014An international team of astronomers has found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar...
Adapt and survive: how conservation and animal psychology can work together
08 October 2014Researchers are calling for animal cognition experts and conservationists to come together to help animals adapt their behaviour to changing environmental issues and aid their...
Can she bake? The Bake Off back story
07 October 2014As Great British Bake Off sizzles towards tomorrow’s final, historian Sophie McGeevor reveals the less glamorous realities that faced working class women in the mid-19th...
Out of the red and into the blue: making the LED revolution cost-effective
07 October 2014Today, the Nobel Prize for Physics 2014 has been awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for their invention of a new energy-efficient...