13th November 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 4-10 November 2013
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12th November 2013 Houston, USA
UK Chief Scientific Adviser explores energy in Texas
I recently had the opportunity to join Sir Mark Walport, the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, on his trip through Texas before he headed on to Canada. Our Science and Innovation teams coordinated his visit, which focused on the potential for building UK-North America links in energy and sharing best practices in policy and regulation. […]
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5th November 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 28 October-3 November 2013
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4th November 2013
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Isn’t Knowledge GREAT? Origins of Universe Bring Nobel Prize to UK
Serendipity, “The God Particle” and Turkish-British Collaboration in Science – a guest blog by Dr. Başak Candemir, Science and Innovation Officer, British Consulate-General Istanbul On 8 October, the Nobel Committee awarded the Physics Prize jointly to British scientist Peter Higgs and Belgian scientist Francois Englert. Professor Higgs gave his name to the the “Higgs Boson” or […]
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28th October 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 21-27 October 2013
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22nd October 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 14-20 October 2013
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15th October 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 7-13 October 2013
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11th October 2013 San Francisco, USA
New UK research gives hope for Alzheimer’s treatments
Scientific research may sometimes be portrayed as a series of breakthroughs, but in fact it is a gradual and labour-intensive process, especially when it comes to developing new drugs. However, this week’s announcement of an exciting result from Leicester University in the UK may well represent a turning point in the fight against degenerative brain […]
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11th October 2013 Boston, USA
Why I think Synthetic Biology is GREAT!
The US Science and Innovation Network kicked off a year-long campaign focused on synthetic biology last month in Boston. The goal of this campaign is to promote the fantastic synthetic biology research ongoing in the UK, boost current collaborations and inspire some new ideas for ways the two countries can work together. I am really […]
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9th October 2013 New Delhi, India
Nobel Pursuit of the Higgs Boson
Yesterday the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Professor Peter Higgs from the University of Edinburgh and Professor François Englert from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. It was awarded for their work , in the 1960s, predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson. I’m not a physicist, so if you want to know […]