Durham University
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ScienceWhen most people think of helium, they think of party balloons and funny voices, but the gas has far more important applications in medicine and electronics. Unfortunately, the world has been in the grips of a global shortage. Now, a research team has discovered a massive reserve in East Africa.
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An international team of astronomers is planning to use gravitational wave data to unravel the formation processes that created the first supermassive black holes.
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Researchers at Durham University in the United Kingdom have developed an approach to breaking down rubber in materials at room temperature. The chemical process uses catalytic disassembly, eliminating the energy-intensive methods of currently-used tire recycling methods.
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A team of scientists led by Diveena Danabalan of Durham University conducted a new study that indicates that there may be vast new sources of helium in the western mountain regions of North America.
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New studies by astronomers are slowly throwing some light on dark matter, the invisible and mysterious stuff that scientists believe makes up much of the universe. For the first time, astronomers believe they've observed the interactions of dark matter via a factor other than the force of gravity.
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By strengthening the galactic winds in a computer simulation of the entire history of the universe, astronomers may have a more accurate model with which to study galaxies and their evolution.
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ScienceResearchers have discovered a new way to increase plant growth by suppressing the natural response to environmental stress. The scientists have found a modifier protein which can be used to interfere with the plants growth repression proteins.
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A new technique that generates human hair growth from a patient's own cells could make hair transplantation feasible for those suffering male- and female-pattern hair loss, scarring alopecia, and hair loss due to burns.
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ScienceIn a recent study, multi-user multi-touch desks were found to help students do better at math.
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ScienceAn international research team has been given the novel task of developing a practical means of monitoring underground stores of CO2 using none other than cosmic rays.