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Scientists a step closer to producing fuel from bacteria
Biology /
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Sheffield have shown how bacteria could be used as a future fuel. The research, published in the journal Bioinformatics, could have significant implications for the environment and the way we ...
Sheffield scientists light up bacteria
Mar 12, 2007 |
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Researchers from the University of Sheffield have received joint funding from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council and the Ministry of Defence to develop an innovative sensor to detect bacteria. The new method ...
Researchers light up lungs to help diagnose disease
Apr 28, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed innovative technology which illuminates a person’s lungs and helps clinicians identify if they are functioning correctly. The new technology could ...
Record warm summers cause extreme ice melt in Greenland
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2008 |
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An international team of scientists, led by Dr Edward Hanna at the University of Sheffield, has demonstrated that recent warm summers have caused the most extreme Greenland ice melting in 50 years. The new research provides ...
Researchers develop long-lasting growth hormone
Sep 04, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a long-acting growth hormone for use in human therapy. The new discovery could mean that children and adults with growth hormone disorders will not have to have injections ...
When it comes to female red squirrels, it seems any male will do
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Jun 20, 2008 |
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Researchers have found that female red squirrels showed high levels of multimale mating and would even mate with males that had similar genetic relatedness, basically mating with their relatives.
Male painters exposed to fertility damaging chemicals
May 23, 2008 |
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Men working as painters and decorators who are exposed to glycol ethers are more likely to have poor semen quality, according to research carried out by scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester.
Birds learn to fly with a little help from their ancestors
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Aug 14, 2007 |
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A researcher at the University of Sheffield has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left behind by their ancestors.
Futuristic robots, friend or foe?
Apr 22, 2008 |
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A leading robotics expert will outline some of the ethical pitfalls of near-future robots to a Parliamentary group today at the House of Commons. Professor Noel Sharkey from the University of Sheffield will explain that robots ...
Mothers trade child quantity for quality
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield have shown that mothers are choosing to have fewer children in order to give their children the best start in life, but by doing so are going against millenia of human evolution. ...
Engineers have big ideas for the latest in medical scanners
Feb 12, 2008 |
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Engineers at the University of Sheffield and STFC Rutherford-Appleton Laboratories have developed one of the World's largest imagers that could form the heart of future medical scanners. The new technology will allow doctors ...
Females avoid incest by causing male relatives to leave home
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Aug 15, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Sheffield in the UK and Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin, Germany, have found that female hyenas avoid inbreeding with their male relatives by giving them little ...
Study discovers secret of Scottish sheep evolution
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Jan 17, 2008 |
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Researchers from the University of Sheffield, as part of an international team, have discovered the secret of why dark sheep on a remote Scottish Island are mysteriously declining, seemingly contradicting Darwin’s evolutionary ...
Breakthrough in split second 3D face imaging
Mar 24, 2006 |
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Face recognition technology that could revolutionise security systems worldwide has been developed by computer scientists at Sheffield Hallam University. The new specialist software can produce an exact 3D image of a face ...
Prehistoric site found near UK's Stonehenge
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge.
