All articles by Matthew Gunther – Page 11
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News
Higher education funding boost confirmed for England
Universities will receive an additional £1 billion in the forthcoming financial year
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Ebola vaccine shown to be safe in humans
GlaxoSmithKline vaccine will now be trialled in Liberia
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ResearchBlue LEDs may be caught in a trap
Manufacturing difficulties could be down to nitrogen vacancies
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ResearchAlkali metal explosion explained
High-speed cameras help re-examine the chemistry behind a classic classroom demonstration
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ResearchTomography allows ancient texts to rise from the ashes
Scroll from town destroyed in Vesuvius eruption over 2000 years ago deciphered
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Open access journal to pay peer reviewers
A portion of the article processing charge will be put aside to create a fund to reward referees
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PodcastTungsten carbide
Matt Gunther introduces the alloy that links armour-piercing bullets and ball point pens: Tungsten carbide
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ResearchPheromone trap will not let the bed bugs bite
Bed bugs are attracted to chemicals in their own faeces, which could make infestations easier to spot
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News
Government rejects home secretary’s student visa proposal
International students will not have to return home straight after graduating
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Home secretary’s student visa plan draws ire of science community
Foreign students would be expelled from UK as soon as they complete their degrees
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ResearchHydrogen superconductivity hammered out on diamond anvil
Humble hydrogen sulfide may be the best superconductor produced yet, but only under extreme pressures
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Research
Chemical camouflage helps fish hide from predators
First time a vertebrate has been seen to evade predators by smelling like its habitat
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Business
Big pharma opens up abandoned drugs
Seven firms will make 68 stalled compounds available for academic research
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ResearchShining a light on rewritable paper
Plastic ‘paper’ written on with UV light and wiped cleaned with heat
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ResearchGraphene’s showdown with the man with the golden gun
Tests with supersonic micro-bullets show that multilayer graphene could make first-rate body armour
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ResearchDNA survives extreme heat of rocket re-entry
Discovery might spell trouble for extraterrestrial life hunters faced with terrestrial contamination problems
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ResearchCrustacean culprit turns lakes to jelly
Acid rain leaching calcium from Canadian water courses leads to a surge in jelly-covered organisms
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ResearchHollow oxide can take the heat
Aluminium-based coating could protect metal components from heat, oxidation
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ResearchPolymer preservative set to save wooden artefacts
Supramolecular network may pave the way for future conservation efforts on the Mary Rose
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Research
Metallic blood smell attracts predators
Aldehyde attraction for African wild dogs helps to explain how they find their prey