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Professor Peter Higgs stands in front of a photograph of the Large Hadron Collider at the Science Museum's 'Collider' exhibition (Picture: Getty)

A crash course in particle physics

Channel: Uncategorised Uncategorised December 10, 2019 By Sharon Lougher

Bungling scientists kill world’s oldest creature

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Daniel Binns
Marvel and DC comic book writers team up with UCLan in the name of engineering University lecturer immortalised as superhero Two comic book writers who have created some of Marvel and DC Comics' world famous characters have teamed up with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) for a superhero inspired science project. Andy Lanning and Anthony Williams have over the last 25 years illustrated and written The Avengers, Batman, Captain America, Superman, Iron Man and X-Men comics to name a few. Now they've used their talents to give UCLan a Gotham City style make-over and turned engineering lecturer Matt Dickinson into a superhero character as part of a national schools' science competition. Matt is the main character in the Hero Lab comic who is turned into two characters; superhero Mecha-man and super villain Doktor Darkness, after being struck by lightning while working in his lab. Primary school age children are being encouraged to create 10 new characters for the final story that will help the nemeses fight each other. The only requirement is that any super powers must be based in real-life science. Computer aided engineering lecturer Matt commented: "We want to demonstrate the power of science and the impact it can have on everyday life; the sea cucumber for instance when completely severed will re-stitch itself like Wolverine's healing capabilities.

Superheroes attempt to recruit young talent

Channel: UK UK December 10, 2019 By Daniel Binns
Professor Stephen Hawking during a talk at the Science Museum, London, ahead of the opening of the the museum's new "Collider" exhibition PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday November 12, 2013. See PA story SCIENCE Hawking. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Stephen Hawking: God particle discovery is boring

Channel: UK UK December 10, 2019 By Nicole Le Marie for Metro
epa03938271 (FILE) A file photo dated 05 April 2007 showing water vapour emerges of the cooling towers of the power plant Jaenschwalde, Germany. The level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere rose at a faster rate in 2012 than during the previous year, indicating an accelerating trend that is contributing to climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said 06 November 2013. The data was published a week before the United Nations' annual Climate Change Conference, which this year takes place in Warsaw. The Geneva-based UN agency also said that the total concentration of greenhouse gases - including CO2, methane and nitrous oxide - rose to a new record last year. The increase of CO2 concentration last year was faster than the average rate over the past 10 years, the UN agency said in its annual greenhouse gas report. EPA/Bernd Settnik

Climate change gases ‘at highest ever levels’

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Aidan Radnedge

What the world would look like if the ice sheets melted

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Metro News Reporter

Mutant ‘super rats’ spreading across Britain

Channel: UK UK December 10, 2019 By Daniel Binns

Men really do ogle women

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Nicole Le Marie for Metro
Undated file photo of a bald man as a pioneering technique that generates new hair follicles could help to banish baldness, research suggests. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday October 21, 2013. For the first time, scientists have shown that it is possible to renew follicles capable of sprouting human hair. The follicles grow naturally from clumps of cells called dermal papillae that play a pivotal role in hair growth. See PA story HEALTH Hair. Photo credit should read: Gareth Copley/PA Wire

Cure for baldness a hair’s breadth away

Channel: UK UK December 10, 2019 By Nicole Le Marie for Metro
wine, alcohol

Why boys are better at beating the booze blues

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Nicole Le Marie for Metro
pregnancy, pregnant woman, fertility

Women trying to conceive ‘should eat a big breakfast’

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Aidan Radnedge
coffee, caffeine, coffee cup

Teens drinking coffee 'at risk of becoming nervous adults'

Channel: News News December 10, 2019 By Daniel Binns

Press ‘delete’ to ditch a memory

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Metro News Reporter
Earth, flat

Life on Earth to end... in 1.7bn years

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Hayden Smith
Sick building syndrome? Get some air

Sick building syndrome? Get some air

Channel: UK UK December 10, 2019 By Hayley Leaver
Time flies... unless you just happen to be a fly watching Gareth Bale

Time flies... unless you just happen to be a fly watching Gareth Bale

Channel: UK UK December 10, 2019 By Hayden Smith
Insects use car-like gear system to jump higher, new research finds

Bouncing bugs take evolution up a gear

Channel: UK UK December 10, 2019 By Etan Smallman
Pancreatic cancer killed off in just six days, British scientists claim

Stem study first could pave way to regrow legs

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Nicole Le Marie for Metro

3D printers ‘could be used to print off human organs’

Channel: World World December 10, 2019 By Nicole Le Marie for Metro
EMBARGOED TO 1800 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28 Undated handout image issued by Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna of a Cross section of an "organoid" showing different brain regions, all cells are in blue, neural stem cells in red, and neurons in green. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday August 28, 2013. A miniaturised "brain-in-a-bottle" has been grown by stem cell scientists who hope it will lead to new treatments for neurological and mental diseases. The tiny hollow "organoids", measuring three to four millimetres across, have a structure similar to that of an immature human brain, including defined regions. See PA story HEALTH Brain. Photo credit should read: Madeline A. Lancaster/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Mini 'human brain' grown in lab

Channel: World World December 9, 2019 By Nicole Le Marie for Metro

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