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The corrosive forces of the ocean break plastic bottles, cigarette lighters and pieces of packaging down into tiny fragments that are difficult to track. But scientists have come up with a technique that could reveal the whereabouts of microplastics by way of a glowing fluorescent dye.
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Over 65 million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. Strangely, the legacy of this huge space rock could include a treatment for cancer. Scientists have demonstrated that iridium – a rare metal delivered to Earth by the asteroid – can kill cancer without harming healthy cells.
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It's no secret that eating protein can fill you up faster than other foods. Researchers have figured out just why that is, and they've identified the specific foods that satisfy hunger the quickest. Their findings could lead to treatments that fight obesity and make us feel fuller while eating less.
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"How to quite smoking" and "how to lose weight," are the kind of search terms a person with specific health concerns might type into Google, but according to new research, they may be indicative of a more general, and serious medical condition.
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Researchers at Cambridge and the University of Warwick have jumped ahead to the logical endpoint of Moore's Law and shrunk wires down to a string of single atoms. Effectively one dimensional, these “extreme nanowires” are made of tellurium, compressed inside carbon nanotubes to keep them stable.
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You may not think of a wedding cake as being the type of thing that gets vandalized, but that's what happened to a replica of the cake that was presented to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1947. Now, thanks to 3D scanning technology, a super-accurate copy of that replica is being recreated.
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Starspotters at Warwick University have observed the first white dwarf version of a pulsar. Located 380 light years from Earth in a binary system along with a red dwarf, AR Scorpii is the first to be discovered since pulsars were spotted for the first time half a century ago.
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A new study out of the University of Warwick in the UK and Fudan University in China found out just how strengthened and weakened neuronal circuits can cause our grey matter to deliver dark days.
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Imagine if you were in charge of putting cars into shipping containers. Given all the shapes and sizes you might be working with, how would you know which ones to put together, and in what configurations? Well, that's where new racking software developed at the University of Warwick comes in.
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Scientists are claiming to have identified a cause behind recurring miscarriages, finding a lack of stem cells in the womb lining to be the culprit behind the hindered development of an implanted embryo.
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One problem with orally-administered painkillers is that even though you may just have pain in a particular area, the medication affects your whole body. Now, however, scientists have developed a solution – they've created the world's first ibuprofen skin patch.
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Scientists from the University of Warwick have produced the first weather map of a planet outside our solar system. The planet in question – HD 189733b – has winds 20 times faster than any recorded on Earth raging across its surface.
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