For this competition you have to create a 60 second video for one of the various categories of science (you can enter multiple videos if you want). The videos have to both explain and show an aspect of science, rather than just show a phenomena. For more detail on the rules visit http://www.60secondscience.net/the-details/the-rules. This competition …
Scientists have flown into the heart of a turbulent weather system over Wales and the Irish Sea in a bid to find out the causes of heavy rainfall by gathering details about temperatures and water movement inside the clouds For more information visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18006823
Microbes that ingest iron and make small magnets inside their bodies are being studied by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds and Japan\’s Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology for their possible uses in creating bio-computers. The magnets are similar to the ones used in PC hard drives, and so could be …
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In Liverpool, a \’heart shrinking\’ trial is beginning to attempt to save patients with heart failure. Electricity is used to stimulate a nerve leading to the heart, in the hope that it could shrink hearts that are too large, as it has been discovered that \’the more the heart enlarges, the worse the symptoms\’. People …
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Wind farms can affect weather in their immediate locality, raising night-time temperatures on the ground, researchers working in Texas have shown. They used satellite data to show that land around newly constructed wind farms warmed more than next-door areas. The result – published in the journal Nature Climate Change – confirms an earlier, smaller study from 2010. The scientists believe …
The editor of the world-leading scientific journal Nature says current procedures to assess and censor medical research potentially of use to terrorists need to be improved. Dr Philip Campbell made his remarks to BBC News following the publication of controversial research into the bird flu virus H5N1.Two research papers have raised the concern of anti-terrorist agencies.One was submitted …
Recent research by Cancer Research UK has found that breast cancer can actually be classified as ten different diseases. The study looked at 2,000 frozen samples of breast tumour tissue taken over ten years and put into ten different subtypes, and therefore treatment can be better targeted to the particular subtype, and a more specific …
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Water scarcity will be one of the defining features of the 21st century. The U.N. predicts that by 2025 two thirds of the world\’s population will suffer water shortages. Here CNN takes a look at what we do with the water we can drink. http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/road-to-rio/secret-life-drinking-water/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
The largest laser in the world was turned on for a fraction of a second last week — and it unleashed the most powerful laser blast in history. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) – a laser test facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. — turned on its 192 laser beams for a …
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Chile is the world\’s biggest copper exporter, and has the planet\’s largest known reserves of the red metal. Export of the metal is essential for Chile\’s economy – it amounts to about 70% of all Chilean exports – and the more copper the country digs out, the more money pours in. As Pilar Paddar, research …
