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Evening Standard · Nov 15, 2024

Patients’ own blood could be used to help repair broken bones, study suggests

Scientists have transformed blood into a material which successfully repaired bones in animals.

Evening Standard · Nov 15, 2024

Boots says it will ‘draw lessons’ from research into links to slavery

Report looked into donations to Nottingham universities by Jesse Boot, who expanded pharmacy chain

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2024

Euclid space telescope finds 1.5 trillion orphan stars wandering the Perseus cluster (images)

The Euclid telescope has allowed astronomers to discover a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars torn from their own galaxies to wander the Perseus cluster alone.

Space · May 29, 2024

Have we reached peak generative AI?

A slew of announcements from OpenAI and Google this week brought us to the brink of human-like AI assistants. Generative artificial intelligence is getting faster, and being applied to an increasing number of tasks. But without a major breakthrough to the models underpinning such projects, it has led some to…

France 24 · May 17, 2024

Physicists make record-breaking 'quantum vortex' to study the mysteries of black holes

Physicists created a 'quantum vortex,' which flows with 500 times less viscosity than water and could be used to study the space-time warping caused by black holes.

LiveScience · Mar 26, 2024

China influencing leading British universities, documentary claims

Channel 4’s Dispatches claims University of Nottingham closed school under Beijing pressure and Imperial College professor collaborated on AI

The Guardian - UK · Nov 28, 2023

Man denies murder of three in Nottingham but admits manslaughter

Valdo Calocane, 32, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of three other people.

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2023

Scientists create baker’s yeast with more than 50% synthetic DNA

The overarching aim was to build a yeast that can teach us new biology, researchers said.

The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2023

In the Sikkim flood’s wake, a trail of hazards lie in wait

A GLOF at South Lhonak lake in Sikkim caused 42 deaths. The lake remains a potential hazard due to its size and the melting glacier. Scientists are currently studying the effects of the GLOF and a landslide-dammed lake downstream of the lake. A cloudburst is unlikely to have been the…

The Hindu · Nov 6, 2023