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Why the Nasca's big mistake was to cut down the huarango tree

Clearing key trees left pre-Inca culture exposed to floods and drought

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Veterans return to Iraq – virtually

Monday, 2 November 2009

Computer simulations could help soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder

Nutt: His sacking could cause 'meltdown' of drugs advisory council

Six drugs service scientists may resign over sacking.

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Growing fury at 'disgraceful' decision that undermines relations between politicians and scientists

Government drugs advisor quits in protest

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Dr Les King, a prominent member of government's drugs advisory panel, has resigned in protest over the treatment of Professor David Nutt.

The formula for a perfect boiled egg has been identified at Exeter University

The appliance of science

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Researchers devote years to devising the ultimate formulae for everything from tea to toast. But why?

An artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst

Nasa peers back into the 'cosmic dark ages'

Thursday, 29 October 2009

A massive gamma-ray burst 13 billion light years away has thrown new light on the early years of the Universe

An artist's impression of a pliosaur

Found: the giant sea monster that was armed to the teeth

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

A prehistoric sea monster with gigantic jaws that could swallow a man whole and snap a car in half has been unearthed by an amateur fossil hunter at the foot of a cliff on the Jurassic Coast of southern England.

Paternal grandmothers: good for girls, bad for boys

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

The importance of grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren is underlined in a study published today.

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Dr Hwang and the stem cell swindle

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Guilty verdict completes downfall of scientist who claimed cloning breakthrough. Steve Connor reports

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Revealed: why children of older men are more likely to have health problems

Monday, 26 October 2009

Oxford study identifies mutant cells affecting sperm

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