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Has Genetics really revolutionised Agriculture and Medicine yet?

Genetic engineering – improving lives or making companies richer?

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What are the Consequences of making Eggs?

Making eggs from stem cells could raise ethical and legal problems

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Understanding the Mosquito's Defences

Gene for insecticide resistance in mosquitos identified

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Overfishing could soon cause Extinctions

Only 10% of world's large fish stocks remain, warns new report

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How Video Games can be Good for You

Improve your multi-tasking and visual skills with video games

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Should Museums return ancestral Human Remains?

Requests for repatriation of human remains from scientific collections raise concerns

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Flight or Fight?

How the brain's amygdala helps us recognise danger and respond

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Secrets of the Y Chromosome

New map of the Y chromosome shows it carries more genes than expected

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'Child Mortality should be a Global Concern'

How and why 10 million children die unnecessarily each year

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New Recipe for Cleaner Fuel

Beds of recyclable zeolite crystals can be used to eliminate sulphur compounds from fuels

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Did we all start from this Single Cell?

Proteins show that choanoflagellates could be our closest single-cell ancestor

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The role of Frog Eggs in Stem Cell Research

Frog eggs could help scientists facing restrictions on use of human embryonic stem cells

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Is the Ozone Layer on the mend?

First evidence that the ozone layer might be healing

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Astronomers ignite Climate Change Controversy

Paper on global warming causes academic and political controversy

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The state of Coral Reefs

Study of 40,000 years of coral reefs connects their decline to human intervention

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Ancient Chinese Drug used in Battle against Malaria

How do artemisinins, known to Chinese medicine, act against malaria?

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The Red Planet seen from Earth

Scientists are taking advantage of how close Mars is now to Earth

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Mystery of the first Americans

Why the first people to reach the Americas weren't ancestors of today's native Americans

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How Babies recognise Language

Babies can recognise language very early, using the left hemisphere of their brain

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Why the Month you were born Matters

How could the month of your birth affect the rest of your life?

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Why more CO2 means more acidic Oceans

How oceans are becoming more acidic as they absorb increased quantities of man-made CO2

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Is there Liquid on Titan?

Can radio telescopes "see" lakes of liquid hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon Titan?

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First Chinese Astronaut

China's first manned space flight, Shenzhou 5, is a success

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Concorde's Last Flight

Last flight of Concorde, the supersonic passenger aircraft

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Spot the Solar Flares

The Sun is producing massive solar flares causing magnetic storms

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Increasing Longevity – in Worms

Scientists increase longevity of worms by blocking hormones that cause ageing

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Seach for Planets cancelled

Scientists protest at ESA's cancellation of the Eddington mission to look for new planets

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New Mystery Meson upsets Particle Theorists

Discovery of a new mystery meson subatomic particle

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Chinese first to approve Gene Therapy Treatment

Chinese are first to approve gene therapy treatment for patients outside clinical trials

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Perfectly preserved Ostracod Shellfish

English fossils contain well preserved soft and hard structures of ancient ostracods

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