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James Van Allen
James Van Allen, American physicist, famous for the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts. James Van Allen was born in Iowa in 1914, and [...]
‘Predatory Bacteria’ Might Be Enlisted In Defense Against Antibiotic Resistance
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is funding research to use germ-eating microbes to attack other microbes resistant to antibiotic treatment. The best-studied microbe [...]
A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer
The Nobel prize in medicine was awarded for two breakthrough scientific discoveries heralded as having “revolutionised cancer treatment”, and “fundamentally changed the way we view [...]