University of Sheffield
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Plenty of students cheat on tests by copying off neighbors, and it turns out that grasses are doing the same thing. Scientists have found evidence that some species of grasses are stealing genes from their neighbors to help them adapt, effectively bypassing millions of years’ worth of evolution.
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If your city has a program for converting old Christmas trees into mulch or compost, that's good, but … evergreen needles do take a long time to decompose. According to new research, those needles could instead be harvested and used in products such as paints or sweeteners.
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Conditions such as oral lichen planus (OLP) and recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) cause painful lesions inside the mouth, which can be difficult to treat. There could be new hope, however, in the form of what's essentially a drug-delivering bandage that can be adhered directly TO those lesions.
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Oesophageal atresia is a condition in which the upper and lower sections of a baby's oesophagus don’t connect. Scientists from the University of Sheffield and Boston Children’s Hospital have created what may be a better way of treating it, in the form of an implantable robotic device.
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The Sun is currently in the quietest phase of its 11-year cycle, but it has blasted forth some of the largest solar flares on record. Several X-class flares have erupted over the past week, one of which is the largest in over a decade and one of the top 10 since records began.
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Astronomers in the UK have found new evidence that black holes tear stars apart 100 times more often than previously thought. These stellar-swallowing smorgasbords were thought to happen only every 10,000 to 100,000 years, but a recent discovery has researchers rethinking that rate of occurrence.
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The idea that a group of sign language users are equipped with better vision mightn't come as a surprise. But what if we told you that among that group were adults whose hearing is perfectly intact?
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Researchers have developed a tiny origami robot that is swallowed as a capsule, then unfolds in true Transformer style to patch a wound or remove foreign objects, such as button batteries.
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Using sound waves to move data in solid-state memory, researchers claim that this technique could markedly increase computer processing speeds while vastly reducing power consumption.
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A British research team has happened upon a technique that promises to cut the healing time of chronic wounds by a third, using simple low-intensity ultrasounds.
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When a nerve is severed, the best form of treatment involves letting the two ends grow back into each other. Scientists at the University of Sheffield have developed a means of helping them do so, in the form of a 3D-printed nerve guidance conduit (NGC).
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Researchers have developed a new prototype semi-transparent, graphene-based LED device that could form the basis of flexible screens for use in the next-generation of mobile phones, tablets and televisions.
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