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How does your garden glow?
Nature’s ability to create iridescent flowers has been recreated by mathematicians at The University of Nottingham. […]
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Tags: Centre for Plant Integrative Technology, flower, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, plant iridescence, School of Biosciences, tulip
Nottingham’s role in scientific breakthrough of the century
The crucial work of Nottingham researchers in one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th-century […]
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Tags: DNA, double helix, Mike Creeth, University College Nottingham, Watson and Crick
It’s a cracker! Research shows how blue cheese gets its distinctive smell
As the nation prepares to tuck into mounds of Stilton this Christmas, researchers have pinpointed for […]
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Tags: blue cheese, Division of Food Sciences, ERDF, Food and Drink Forum, PhD researchers, Stilton, worldwide blue cheese market
An energy conscious workforce — how to encourage staff to go green
As homeowners we are becoming cannier about turning down the thermostat to save our pennies and […]
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Tags: carbon footprint, Dr Alexa Spence, energy work, EPSRC, Horizon Digita Research, lightbulbs, School of Psychology, University of Southampton
Seeing the world through the eyes of an orangutan
She is a captive bred Sumatran orangutan. He is a neuroscientist specialising in cognitive and sensory […]
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Tags: Cognitive and Sensory Systems Research Group, eye tracking, Malaysia, orangutan, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
£2.2m quest begins to increase wheat yields
The world’s leading experts in crop cytogenetics have been awarded £2.2m to head an international study […]
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Tags: cereal, Crops, Global food security, School of Bioseciences
Biscuits better when dunked, says Heston
Food experts at The University of Nottingham have helped Heston Blumenthal scientifically answer a question that […]
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Tags: biscuits, dunking Heston Blumenthal, School of Biosciences
Rare parasitic fungi could have anti-flammatory benefits
Caterpillar fungi (Cordyceps) are rare parasites found on hibernating caterpillars in the mountains of Tibet. For […]
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Tags: cancer, caterpillar, cordyceps, fungus, medicine, RNA journal, School of Pharmacy