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First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 1 reports

Quantum carotenoids shine light on photosynthesis

Anticlockwise from top right: Purple bacteria and the structure of the light harvesting complex that gives these cells their distinctive purple colour. This special protein incorporates molecules of bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoid to capture the energy ... [Published Laboratory News - 11 hours ago]

Entities: carotenoid, Photosynthesis, Spectroscopy, Molecule, Protein

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

University of Oxford

3D printed shapes mimic living tissue

Printed droplet networks. Credit: Oxford University/G VillarA custom-built programmable 3D printer that can print materials with the properties of living tissues has been developed by Oxford University researchers.The new type of printed material consists ... [Published Laboratory News - May 15 2013]

Entities: 3D Printing, Gabriel Villar, University of Oxford

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

European Space Agency

Young galaxy is surprisingly efficient star-factory

Artist’s impression of starburst galaxy HFLS3. Credit: ESA – C. CARREAUAstronomers have discovered an extremely distant galaxy that has one of the largest star-formation rates they have ever seen.The new galaxy, called HFLS3, looks like a faint red smudge ... [Published Laboratory News - May 14 2013]

Entities: Dave Clements, European Space Agency, Hubble Space Telescope

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Primordial soup secret revealed

Scientists may have cracked a common conundrum about how objects from space could have kindled life on Earth.The study, led by Leeds University, revealed how a chemical, similar to one now found in all living cells, could have been crated when phosphorus-containing ... [Published Laboratory News - May 11 2013]

Entities: Chemical, Phosphorus, Meteorite

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Giving a soapbox to pseudoscience

The largest measles outbreak for a decade is posing a serious danger to many, so why is the media still providing a platform for a discredited scientist?Wales’ current measles outbreak has resurrected a controversy that will not die; a zombie debate that ... [Published Laboratory News - May 11 2013]

Entities: Andrew Wakefield, Autism, MMR Vaccine

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Ring rain influences Saturn’s atmosphere

This artist's concept illustrates how charged water particles flow into the Saturnian atmosphere from the planet's rings, causing a reduction in atmospheric brightness. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/University of Leicester)Saturn’s ... [Published Laboratory News - May 08 2013]

Entities: Saturn, Atmosphere, Ionosphere

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Karolinska Institutet

Sensing an invisible hand

Arvid Guterstam evokes the experience of having an invisible hand in the subject. Credit: Gustav MartenssonThe ability to recognise your own body is more complicated than you think, suggest Swedish scientists who have demonstrated that is possible to ... [Published Laboratory News - May 06 2013]

Entities: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Impersonator

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Frog-like robots to assist surgery

Intra-abdominal robot on steel plate (Leeds University)A tiny robot inspired by the feet of tree-frogs is being built at the University of Leeds. The device may one day allow surgeons to better visualise key-hole surgery.The robot is designed to move ... [Published Laboratory News - May 03 2013]

Entities: Anne Neville, University of Leeds, Robotics

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Not abiding by the constraints of species

On the cover this month you’ll find staring back at you a killer of truly grotesque stature. Responsible for nearly 30 million deaths, HIV can, at the very least, be regarded as a very successful pathogen.But that sobering stat isn’t quite the full picture ... [Published Laboratory News - May 02 2013]

Entities: Species, H7N9, Pathogen, Animal Health, Virus

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Flight of the bumblebee

A bumblebee is more stable when it is flying quickly, rather than hovering at slow speeds suggests research published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.Researchers in China used a mathematical model to analyse the way bumblebees fly at different speeds. ... [Published Laboratory News - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Bumblebee, Insect, Astronautics, Quantum Mechanics

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

A scaled-up solar system

Artist’s rendering of the planetary system HR 8799 at an early stage in its evolution, showing the planet HR 8799c, as well as a disk of gas and dust, and interior planets.A team of astrophysicists have made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere ... [Published Laboratory News - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Solar System, Atmosphere, Oxygen

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Arguing about Antarctica

Hype about unclassified life found in sub-glacial Lake Vostok has led to an almighty squabble between scientists. Could peer review be the antidote to the argument?“We’ve found something new!”“Oh, no you haven’t…”“Oh, yes we have!”The scientific pursuit ... [Published Laboratory News - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Bacteria, Peer Review, Kerosene, Contamination, misleading