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Having sons can shorten a woman’s life expectancy
Boys may be energetically more demanding to breastfeed.
27 February 2013
Newt sequencing may set back efforts to regrow human limbs
Amphibian's unique proteins cast doubt on existence of latent potential for regeneration.
21 February 2013
Small-molecule drug drives cancer cells to suicide
Studies in mice show therapy is effective even in hard-to-treat brain tumours.
7 February 2013
Mountain ashes
UK unveils plan to fight deadly ash disease
But most of the country's 90 million ash trees are likely to be wiped out.
9 November 2012
Blind mole rats may hold key to cancer
Rodents' cells commit mass suicide when overcrowded, preventing uncontrollable proliferation.
5 November 2012
The emotional colour of art
African spiny mice can regrow lost skin
Rodents are first mammals observed regenerating tissue.
26 September 2012
Shoreditch Sisters
July Is The Maddest Month
Subatomic particles collide at Secret Garden Party
Guerilla Science staged a safari featuring quarks, electrons and bosons to help demystify particle physics
27 July 2012
Termites explode to defend their colonies
Older workers use chemical reaction to increase toxicity of 'explosive backpacks'.
26 July 2012
The Unselfish Gene
Are humans really a selfish species ruled by competition and self-interest? Zoe Cormier surveys the ideas of recent thinkers who argue that biology and evolution prove we are natural co-operators.
1 July 2012
Illuminating Life
Since its discovery 50 years ago, Green Fluorescent Protein has become one of the most useful tools in biology.
1 July 2012
Stressed grasshoppers slow plant decay
Fear of predators affect nutrient cycling in whole ecosystem.
19 June 2012
BBC Focus
Man Vs. Winter
Is the Green New Deal a dead duck?
Four years ago it was hailed as the cure for our economic and environmental woes. So what’s happened?
1 March 2012
If a tree falls
Malaria death toll disputed
Study doubles official estimate, but scientists say its methods are flawed.
3 February 2012
Biofuel from beneath the waves
Engineered bacterium can produce ethanol directly from seaweed.
19 January 2012
Nature News
What Does a Deaf Rave Sound Like?
Sencity has put on raves for the deaf in Mexico, Brazil, Finland, Spain, and South Africa, with Montreal on the agenda for 2012. What, no Toronto?
6 December 2011
Is the BBC dumbing down?
Natural History on the BBC has taken a drastic departure from its unabashedly nerdy roots. And what about that episode on climate change that was canned?
25 November 2011
Growth is not the solution
"But perhaps the core myth of our time is that deliberation of economic matters is pointless – or best left to experts. Neither is true."
23 November 2011
The Reel McCoy
In an age when our lives are steeped in pixels, photographs created with traditional techniques can’t help but be striking.
23 November 2011
Fluorescent spray tags cancer cells
Japanese researchers have developed a probe for ovarian cancer that can be sprayed onto tissue during surgery
23 November 2011
DIY Alien Contact
Sencity: More than a deaf rave
You’d easily mistake it for simply an opulent club night – until you saw the hands waving in the air.
16 November 2011