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Leap forward made in synthetic biology

April 3, 2017
An international team of more than 200 researchers have made significant progress in building an organism from scratch.

Discovery prompts evolutionary history rethink

March 27, 2017
The discovery of fossilised algae suggests that advanced multicellular life evolved much earlier than previously thought.

Antibiotics linked to bee population dive

March 23, 2017
The mystery around increasing bee deaths and colony collapse disorder may be linked to antibiotics.

Who’d win a fight between Godzilla and a T. rex?

March 21, 2017
Following on from How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? Popular science writer Brian Clegg is back with another quiz book. Loaded with new questions, What Colour is The Sun?...

Berry aids brain function improvement

March 15, 2017
Concentrated blueberry juice has been found to improve brain function in the elderly, according to scientists at the University of Exeter.

Tully monster debate reignited

March 8, 2017
A group of paleobiologists are refuting claims made last year about the classification of the ‘Tully monster’.

Fossil discovery prompts rethink of penguin evolution

March 7, 2017
The discovery of the fossil of a penguin shows the species was around during the age of the dinosaurs, according to a team of scientists from Germany and New Zealand.

A taste for understanding

March 7, 2017
As consumers become ever more label savvy, demand for foods with fewer ingredients is growing – but how to achieve this whilst keeping food cheap, convenient, and tasty?

A right royal success

March 6, 2017
Following a fellowship award from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Alice Hagan set about developing an oncological knock-out punch. Here she talks microbeads, cancer starvation, and the...

Bacterial protection offers hope against coral degradation

February 28, 2017
Coral reefs may be protected from bleaching by bacteria in certain microbiomes, according to researchers in Saudi Arabia.

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