by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | News
According to new research, babies are able to build knowledge about the language they hear even in the first few months of life. Therefore, if you move countries and forget your birth language, you retain the hidden ability, according to a study. Dutch-speaking adults...
by admin | Nov 16, 2016 | News
Scientists have transformed the humble spinach plant into a bomb detector. By embedding small tubes in the plants’ leaves, they can be made to pick up chemicals called nitro-aromatics, which are found in buried munitions such as landmines. Real-time information can...
by admin | Nov 1, 2016 | News
Astronomers from the Havard-Smithsonian Centre have found our neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri, has a lot more in common with our Sun than previously thought. A small red dwarf, it is orbited by a planet that is similar in size to Earth – Proxima b. It is...
by admin | Oct 6, 2016 | News
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Sir J.Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Bernard L. Feringa for their design and production of molecular machines. Benchmark Services – Laboratory Removals The work of Stoddart (Northwestern University...
by admin | Aug 15, 2016 | News
An expedition has been led aboard the RSS James Cook, 200km off the west coast of Scotland, to the UK’s largest underwater mountains. Using robotic submersibles, scientists were able to dive more than 2,000m underwater to investigate the four seamounts. The mountains...
