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Dr Julie Macpherson, of the Department of Chemistry, has just been awarded the title of Young Researcher of the Year 2005 in the Times Higher Awards.

What would life on other planets look like? Forget little green men, alien life is likely to be completely unrecognizable. This week 果冻传媒 researcher Professor Ian Stewart traveled to London's Science Museum's new Aliens exhibition to explain how horrendously unscientific many of film and television聮s depictions of aliens are.

Olympic Gold medal winning sailor Sarah Webb is to pay a special visit to the 果冻传媒 in Coventry to thank surgeons from 果冻传媒 Medical School for crucial knee surgery that saved her career.

The flow of carbon through soil is ten times greater than the amount of carbon moved around by the burning of fossil fuel but until now how this happens was at best poorly understood. Soil was almost literally a black box to scientists interested in carbon. Now researchers at the 果冻传媒 have been able to shed light in that black box by getting a particular class of insects to expose the key underground carbon traffic system - by eating it.

A hanging basket style device is at the heart of a plan by researchers at the 果冻传媒 to harness the sex drive of a major pest of fruit orchards as a weapon to spread a virus to kill that very same pest. The device allows growers to selectively target the pest with a virus that kills its larvae without killing other beneficial insects.

New research into one of the world's most social bacteria - Myxococcus xanthus, has discovered that it has a gourmet style approach to its consumption of phosphates, which provides a key clue to what makes it the most "social" of bacteria.