Scientists' Pioneering Research Could Lead To Smart Materials Of The Future

Dr Martin Buzza and Dr Tommy Horozov

Scientists at the University of Hull have pioneered a method of organising particles that could lead to the 'smart' materials of the future.

Dr Martin Buzza in the Department of Physics & Maths…

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Thu 9th May, 2013 | 9:30am

Major Fellowship Award For Sheffield Hallam Scientist

Dr Hywel Jones

A Sheffield Hallam University scientist has received a major award to help a new engineering ceramics company develop its research over the next two years.

Dr Hywel Jones, a principal researcher…

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Wed 17th Apr, 2013 | 11:38am

Bladder Cancer Patients Over 70 Less Likely To Receive Curative Treatment

Bladder Cancer under the microscope

Older bladder cancer patients are less likely than younger patients to receive treatments intended to cure their disease such as surgery to remove the bladder or radiotherapy. But this difference…

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Tue 16th Apr, 2013 | 11:40am

'Wind in the Willows' comes alive in South Yorkshire

Arvicola amphibius

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's 'Wildlife on the Waterway's' project has come to an end after a successful two years. The project, which received £67,862 in funding from the SITA Trust, as well as…

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Thu 11th Apr, 2013 | 1:34pm

Water Vole Search On Thorne Moors Nature Reserve

Water vole. Photo by Amy Lewis

Phase three of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Habitat Heroes project, which surveys for water voles, is to kick off in April on Thorne Moors National Nature Reserve (NNR).

During the spring and…

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Tue 2nd Apr, 2013 | 10:13am

3D Cave Will Bring Virtual Reality To Offshore Renewables Training

Emma-Jane Alexander

A 3D virtual reality 'cave' being created at the University of Hull to simulate the hazardous conditions faced by engineers working in the offshore renewables sector is nearing completion.

The…

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Wed 20th Mar, 2013 | 3:32pm

GP's One Stop Shop For Diabetes Data

Diabetes is a growing problem - Photo by MsH-ISB

GPs will now be able to review all their diabetes data in one place, thanks to the new online benchmarking and commissioning support tool, Diabetes Practice Profiles (DPP).

DPP was developed by…

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Tue 12th Mar, 2013 | 9:25am

Government Faces Supreme Court Over Leeds' Illegal Air Pollution

Just when your world view has tidily packaged all lawyers into a box marked "dodgy", up pops ClientEarth.

An association of "activist lawyers committed to securing a healthy planet", their legal…

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Tue 5th Mar, 2013 | 9:31am

See Near Miss Asteroid From Potteric Carr

This picture of a typical asteroid (951 Gaspra) is a mosaic of two images taken by the Galileo spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/JPL

On February 15th Yorkshire Wildlife Trust will be looking to the skies with Doncaster Astronomical Society with the hope of catching a glimpse of an NEO (Near Earth Object).

Potteric Carr gets…

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Mon 4th Feb, 2013 | 4:56pm

Enigmatic Smile At Sheffield Hallam

Mona Lisa might be famous for her enigmatic expression, but hers is not the only 'uncatchable smile' Leonardo da Vinci created, according to experts.

Academics at Sheffield Hallam University and…

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Thu 31st Jan, 2013 | 1:44pm

Climate Change Is A Hot Topic

By Richard Trinder
Editor

The Moor above Silsden, West Yorkshire. Photo by Sue Trinder

As we struggle to keep warm in this latest cold spell, spare a thought for our American cousins - and most of the rest of the world - as 2012 has been declared as the ninth warmest year on record.

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Wed 16th Jan, 2013 | 10:28am

Yorkshire Chemical Manufacturer Expands Workforce

Speciality chemicals manufacturer Vickers Laboratories has recruited six new members of staff to its team.

The Leeds based company is a leading producer of NVP (N-Vinyl-2-Pyrrolidone) for the…

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Wed 9th Jan, 2013 | 4:00pm

Yorkshire Stargazing: The Biggest Explosion Of Your Lifetime

By Steve James
News Editor

Orion Constellation: Betelgeuse is at the top-left

The year is AD 1412. The Hundred Years' War between England and France has raged for nearly eighty years, and, for the English, danger approaches. Joan of Arc has just been born.

Meanwhile, in a…

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Wed 19th Dec, 2012 | 9:56am

Marine Conservation Zones Rejected By Government

The Native Spiny Seahorse now critically endangered

Yesterday the Government announced that it plans to approve only 31 of a proposed 127 new marine conservation zones.

Staff at Scarborough Sea Life Centre said they were 'shocked and appalled' at…

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Fri 14th Dec, 2012 | 3:46pm

Hernia Repair With Yorkshire Glue

A South Yorkshire-based company, B. Braun Medical, has unveiled its new tissue adhesive, Histoacryl. The product is billed as a means of easing post-operative pain endured by hernia patients.

Ingui…

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Tue 27th Nov, 2012 | 2:38pm

Eminent CERN Physicist Gives Lecture In Pudsey

The Large Hadron Collider/ATLAS at CERN - photo by Image Editor

A Pudsey-born physicist who is based at the world-famous CERN facility - the home of the Hadron collider - will be giving a series of free lectures to school pupils and residents in his native…

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Mon 26th Nov, 2012 | 11:26am

Obesity Inheritance Beyond the Genome

Photo by Yoshihide Nomura

The classical paradigm of inheritance by genes alone is gone. Epigenetics, the science of heritable gene activity, has been catapulted to prominence in recent decades. In particular, new studies…

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Tue 13th Nov, 2012 | 11:22am

Pest Control By Parasite

A parasitoid wasp. Photo by Gilles San Martin

Pest control of the future is increasingly likely to involve the use of biological agents, and now researchers at the University of Hull hope their work will enable producers to assess the…

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Tue 6th Nov, 2012 | 11:28am

4G future arrives in Yorkshire

The iPhone 5

Telecommunications giant Everything Everywhere has today established fourth generation (4G) mobile internet coverage across eleven British cities, including Leeds and Sheffield. They boast…

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Tue 30th Oct, 2012 | 3:30pm

Ice streams the key to ice sheet retreat

Ice sheet retreat can halt temporarily during long phases of climate warming, a British team led by an expert from the University of Sheffield has revealed. Their findings provide the first…

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Tue 23rd Oct, 2012 | 3:19pm

Sea Life Sympathy For Shark Plight

Photo by Wyland

Scarborough Sea Life Centre is mounting a charm offensive on behalf of that much-maligned and misunderstood sea creature: the shark.

The fortnight from October 20th to November 4th will be 'Shark…

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Tue 23rd Oct, 2012 | 9:08am

Superbug Dispersion Probed To Devise Combative Measures Against Infection

Airborne hospital superbugs travel in alarmingly high numbers far from the beds of infected patients, researchers at the University of Leeds have revealed.

The results of the study may explain…

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Tue 16th Oct, 2012 | 8:00am

Bird conservation efforts buoyed by novel fertility research

A Hihi by angrysunbird

Scientists at the University of Sheffield have developed a new method of testing the fertility of critically endangered birds which could make captive breeding programmes more effective and help…

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Tue 9th Oct, 2012 | 9:11am

Elusive moth species discovered at Brockadale Nature Reserve

Red-tipped clearwing moth - photo by Dave Williamson

Two new clearwing moth species have been discovered this summer at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Brockadale Nature Reserve near Kirk Smeaton.

The rare six-belted clearwing (Bembecia ichneumoniformis)…

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Tue 2nd Oct, 2012 | 9:14am

Volunteers Help Restore Hay Meadows

The Comply Direct Team and YDMT's Sarah Robinson collecting seed at Dale Head, Forest of Bowland

A group of volunteers has been helping local charity the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) to restore stunning hay meadows in the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
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Wed 12th Sep, 2012 | 2:13pm

Now, robot accepts objects from people in a natural way

Disney researchers have developed a new humanoid robot that is able to recognise when a person is handing them objects and predicting where to make the hand-off.    

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21 May 2013 4:26 pm

Crews Search for Survivors in Oklahoma After Tornado

The risk of more tornadoes in the region remained high early Tuesday as rescuers worked frantically to find survivors in an area along the edge of Oklahoma City.    

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21 May 2013 2:49 pm

DealBook: Sprint Raises Offer for Clearwire Stake

Sprint Nextel raised its offer on Tuesday for the nearly 50 percent stake in Clearwire that it does not already own, just hours before shareholders were scheduled to vote on its earlier...

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21 May 2013 2:28 pm

SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use

Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to...

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21 May 2013 2:09 pm

Rover drills second rock sample

Nasa's Curiosity rover drills a second sample of Martian rock to deliver to its onboard laboratories for analysis in the coming days.

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21 May 2013 12:57 pm

Gadgetwise Blog: App Adds Smartphone Features to a GPS

Garmins Nuvi GPS now links to the iPhone using an app to add functions to the GPS. But some of those added functions cost extra, and some may not be worth the expense.    

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21 May 2013 11:56 am

Skills shortage? Not if you pay or train

One of the most politically charged phrases in IT these days is "skills shortage." That phrase may come up Tuesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee, as expected, takes up a series of...

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21 May 2013 11:18 am

Google may ship Glass in 2013

Just a month after a top Google executive said Glass wouldn't be officially released for another year, sources say the computerized eyeglasses actually should ship by the end of this year. One...

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21 May 2013 11:07 am

Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries to avoid paying billions in taxes each year

Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes to the...

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21 May 2013 10:51 am

Babies sleeping with their parents - a practise common among Indian families, increase cot death risk five-fold

Rates of sudden infant death would plummet if parents avoided bed sharing, scientists have now found.    

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21 May 2013 10:32 am

Google preps Dart 1.0 to challenge JavaScript

Google is getting ready to bring its JavaScript rival Dart language to a formal 1.0 release and has a good idea what will be featured in the 3.0 version of Google Web Toolkit (GWT), due next year.

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21 May 2013 10:00 am

VIDEO: 'First crane egg in 400 years'

The first crane egg in southern Britain in more than 400 years has been laid by a nesting bird.

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21 May 2013 8:18 am

Flightless penguin puzzle 'solved'

The underwater prowess of the penguin may have cost the bird its ability to fly, scientists believe.

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21 May 2013 5:25 am

David Karp Quit School to Get Serious About Tumblr

David Karp, founder of Tumblr, got his education not in high school or college but in the world of Internet start-ups.    

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21 May 2013 1:27 am

Social Media Is Moving Into Creativity Like Tumblr

New services are providing a stage or pulpit for people, instead of making them passive users of social media.    

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21 May 2013 1:26 am