Oxfordshire Con 52, Lib Dem 10, Lab 9, Green 2, Ind 1 all seats up.

BBC: Local elections 2013

The next green technology could be sitting in a lab somewhere, begging for a few dollars to help produce it on a bigger scale.

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Gloucestershire Con 40, Lib Dem 14, Lab 5, Ind 3, Green 1 all seats up.

BBC: Local elections 2013

Invited speakers at this year's TED include a voting system designer, a women's rights activist, a green chef and a physicist who runs a lab that aims to allow anyone to make almost anything.

BBC: 'Virtual human' Milo comes out to play at TED in Oxford

In the lab Raade picks up paper cups containing globs of green and black glass, two promising mixtures that Halotechnics hopes eventually to use in a prototype energy storage system the company plans to bring online in 2015.

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"When we looked at them in detail and brought them to the lab, I could see some of the stems actually had new growth of green lateral branches, and that said to me that these guys are regenerating in the field, and that blew my mind, " she told BBC News.

BBC: Centuries-old frozen plants revived

D. from Stanford and made his breakthrough almost immediately after starting his own lab in 2004, taking advantage of a 2002 discovery of light-sensitive proteins in green algae called channelrhodopsins.

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