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New butterfly species to be named after Sir David Attenborough

December 21, 2015
News
A new species of satyrid butterflies discovered in Southern America will be dedicated to Sir David Attenborough.
Life Sciences
Zoology
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Cardiff University wins prestigious award

December 18, 2015
News
Cardiff University’s mental health research facility, the MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, has been awarded the UK’s most prestigious academic award – the Queen’s Anniversary Prize.
Life Sciences
Neuroscience
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Climbing to the cloud

December 18, 2015
Feature
Bioinformatics needs to change says Dr Thomas Connor and for that to happen we need to look to the cloud. Here he tells us about CLIMB – the world’s largest...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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A fascinating act of cellular cannibalism

December 17, 2015
Feature
After a century of observing strange acts of cellular cannibalism, Jo Durgan and Oliver Florey tell us how close we are to understanding entosis, and what it may mean for...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, In Depth, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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Lead exposure can affect children’s sleep

December 16, 2015
News
Lead exposure in early childhood can increase the risk for sleep problems, new study finds.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental Chemistry
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Ancient bees collected pollen in two ways

December 14, 2015
News
The ancestors of honeybees that lived 50 million years ago collected pollen in two ways.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Paleobiology
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Brain mechanism for durable memories revealed

December 10, 2015
News
Rehearsing information immediately after being given it may be all you need to make it a permanent memory, scientists from the University of Sussex suggest.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience
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Meat-cooking compounds increase the risk of kidney cancer

December 7, 2015
News
Following a recent report by WHO suggesting the consumption of red and processed meat can increase the risk of colorectal cancer, new work has found that compounds produced when cooking...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Food & Beverage, Oncology
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Chicken study reveals speedy and dynamic evolution

December 7, 2015
News
Mutations in chicken genomes suggest that evolution rates could occur 15 times faster than previously thought.
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology
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Life hits 4.1 billion years

December 3, 2015
News
New evidence suggests that life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology, Paleobiology
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