Social marketing campaigns can help threatened wildlife species recover
Encouraging people to change their behavior through social marketing campaigns can help the recovery of threatened wildlife populations.
Nanoscale tweezers can perform single-molecule ‘biopsies’ on individual cells
Using electrical impulses, the ‘tweezers’ can extract single DNA, proteins and organelles from living cells without destroying them.
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Scientist bringing Brazil’s biodiversity back from the brink up for impact award
Imperial scientist Dr Cristina Banks-Leite has been shortlisted for a NERC Impact Award for her work preserving Brazil’s biodiversity.
Oxygen could have been available to life as early as 3.5 billion years ago
Microbes could have performed oxygen-producing photosynthesis at least one billion years earlier in the history of the Earth than previously thought.
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Podcast: 1918 special to mark the First World War armistice centenary
In this edition: We commemorate armistice with a look at Imperial’s war involvement, legacy battlefield injuries, and the Spanish flu epidemic.
Cells decide when to divide based on their internal clocks
The time of day, determined by a cell’s internal clock, has a stronger influence on cell division than previously thought, reveals a new study.
Powerful aurora-forming mini explosions seen behind the Earth
A NASA spacecraft has analysed magnetic explosions on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun, watching the process that creates auroras.
New way to look at cell membranes could change the way we study disease
A new technique to study intact parts of cell membranes could revolutionise studies of cancer, metabolic and heart diseases.
Enormous ‘ghost’ galaxy spotted hiding next to the Milky Way
A galaxy a third the size of our own, but extremely faint, has been observed orbiting around the Milky Way.
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Quantum ‘compass’ could allow navigation without relying on satellites
The UK’s first quantum accelerometer for navigation has been demonstrated by a team from Imperial College London and M Squared.
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