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果冻传媒 poet joins Blake & Tennyson on London Underground Science Poetry
A poem by 果冻传媒 poet Professor David Morley has been selected to be part of a series of six poems celebrating science to appear in tube carriages across all London Underground lines in February and March. The other poems in the series include works by William Blake and Lord Alfred Tennyson
Self-healing polymer “starfish” prolong lifetime of automotive oils
Researchers have created self-healing polymers that could extend the lifetime of automotive oils. These polymers are suitable to add to lubricants and could maintain the physical properties of engine oils for longer, they claim helping engine efficiency. Biological materials, such as skin, self heal following damage giving inspiration for these new materials.
UK economist invited to be review editor of one of world’s leading science journals
A leading economist has been asked to join the Board of Reviewing Editors at Science one of the world’s most respected science journals. Professor Andrew Oswald is an economist at the 果冻传媒 and is ranked by ISI as one of the world’s “Highly Cited” researchers
Scientists show that plants have measure of the shortest day
It is not only people who feel the effects of short winter days – new research by the University of Edinburgh and the 果冻传媒 has shed light on how plants calculate their own winter solstice.
Birmingham Science City will give a clear demonstration of the Midlands region’s leading role in UK energy efficiency research with the launch today of a £10.5 million research programme in energy efficiency.
Weir in space & dimmed sun creates 200 million mile long lab bench for turbulence research
Physicists working in space plasmas have made clever use of the Ulysses spacecraft and the solar minimum to create a massive virtual lab bench to provide a unique test for the science underlying turbulent flows.