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Creating places for people to drive life science

July 24, 2022
While technology and collaboration has made it possible for many to consider giving up their commute entirely, Jane Kennedy looks at those whose only option is to work out of...

Non-consensual citizen science?

July 24, 2022
Russ Swan ponders the non-consensual extraction of biological information from public social images in the emerging discipline of ‘imageomics’.

In silico study sheds light on elephants’ cancer resistance

July 16, 2022
Elephants' ability to combat cancer could help develop treatments in humans and also bolster conservationists' efforts to protect the world's largest land mammals.

Arboreal anural amphibians amaze academics

July 9, 2022
A study intended to track tree-dwelling mammal species has uncovered a surprise occupant in the branches – toads.

Tributes paid to neuroscientist Sir Colin Blakemore

July 2, 2022
Scientists and academics have paid tribute to the late professor Sir Colin Blakemore, following his death at the age of 78.

RSPB report criticises poor regulation of 150 pesticides

July 2, 2022
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has attacked current risk assessments for chemicals used in UK farmland, claiming these are inadequate to guard wildlife.

It pays to be pretty if you’re a threatened fish

June 9, 2022
Humans don’t only judge each other unfairly on looks, they do the same when it comes to fish species in danger of extinction.

Tooth unlocks mystery of Denisovans in Asia

June 3, 2022
Denisovans, a sister species of modern human, inhabited Laos by 164-131,000 years with important implications for populations out of Africa and Australia. Now, scientists have linked fossil teeth and a...

REF results hammer home the importance of UK university-business collaboration

June 1, 2022
The results of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) identify ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ research across the UK. Indeed, 41% of submissions were judged to be world-leading, and 43% as...

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