Douglas Blane
Research physicist originally, working on nuclear reactors, autonomous underwater vehicles, smart materials etc. Now journalist, writer and teacher. Maintain website of science teaching resources linked to the latest research news.
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Threat Via Emoji - The Law Does Not Consider Them A Joke
Nearly everyone is familiar with emoji, those popular icons that appear in text messages, emails and social media platforms. Emoji are often used as light-hearted adjuncts to text, or to soften the…
Simulations Point To A Promising Compound That Could Reduce Parkinson’s Symptoms
A novel computational approach to design has created a new compound that in laboratory studies has reduced deficits and neurodegenerative symptoms that underlie Parkinson’s disease.
Shift To Organic Farming Would Cause Food Yields To Plummet 40% And Carbon Cost To Rise Up To 170%
A new study finds that if the United Kingdom did as The Guardian routinely advocates and abandoned modern agricultural science, people would starve. Or diets would change to where the rich had a…
Yoshinori Ohsumi Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 "For his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy"
Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy", the body's recycling system.