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January 17, 2020
From monitoring cow burps to novel herbicides, cutting-edge agricultural science not only aims to feed the world but also, by adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, do it a sustainable way

An ode to imagination

January 15, 2020
Frustrated by siloed science, Dr Jennifer Rohn bemoans the lack of cross-disciplinary imagination that still lingers in the minds of some scientists

Ancient global warming puzzle solved

January 14, 2020
Scientists from Cardiff University have shed new light on the Earth’s climate behaviour during the last known period of global warming over 14 million years ago.

How to make Christmas cake with ingredients from lab supply companies

December 23, 2019
So, it is the festive period once again and you are trapped in the lab – but fear not, Dr Matthew Partridge has a rather incredible lab-based Christmas plan for...

Game Theory: Phylo

December 20, 2019
Games have never been more popular and in their column Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner take us through Phylo to find out if it is any good...

Festive footprint

December 19, 2019
More than 11,000 scientists have warned of a “catastrophic hothouse Earth” that could result from climate change. On that cheery note, we look at the environmental trail and greenhouse gas...

Ethiopian ponds too extreme even for microbes

November 25, 2019
European biologists have confirmed the one place on Earth where conditions are too extreme for life to exist.

Wellcome leads genome-mapping project

November 8, 2019
The Wellcome Sanger Institute is among 10 organisations that are part of a project to map genomes of all known life on the British Isles.

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