Coalport China Museum - former Coalport Chinaworks - by the River Severn

Reassessing the industrial revolution

21 September 2010

It was the dawn of an age of prosperity and transformed Britain into an economic superpower but our rose-tinted view of the industrial revolution masks another side of its legacy, a new history suggests.

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algae

Green energy from algae

25 June 2010

Visitors to this year's Royal Society Summer Exhibition will have a chance to discover how scientists from the University of Cambridge are studying ways to harness algae as a renewable energy source.

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Best ever snapshot of Black Hole's jets

That's funny

02 June 2010

Paul Murdin from the Institute of Astronomy put a human face to the names behind some of the greatest discoveries to have taken place in our efforts to understand the mysteries of the cosmos.

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