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15/09/2016 - 11:42

Ageing population In that he echoes similar concerns voiced by the likes of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (... →

10/09/2016 - 12:11

Reproductive medicine has seen definitions of motherhood expand to embrace egg-donor mothers and adoptive mothers, in addition to the... →

04/09/2016 - 12:16

Over several months, the team had trained the dogs to lie in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner and remain completely... →

27/08/2016 - 15:49

According to the researchers, the main reason for the relatively moderate growth of the human effect is to be found mainly in countries... →

22/08/2016 - 12:06

But when animals first diversified some 542m or more years ago in the Cambrian “explosion”, there may have been an even greater diversity... →

14/08/2016 - 13:19

Darwin was a diligent thinker. He agonised over any example he came across of organisms behaving in a way that seemed to run counter to his... →

07/08/2016 - 13:30

These are global trends but, living in the US, it seems to me that there is something particularly American to them. We have a long... →

31/07/2016 - 12:37

It was only in the early 1900s that British doctors realised that the housefly could carry disease on its bristly legs: flies were a major... →

24/07/2016 - 17:20

Researchers such as Roughgarden argue that it was a classic case of "confirmation bias". Many biologists were seeing what they wanted to... →

18/07/2016 - 12:06

1. It can make you sad Strange but true: Even if you generally eat a healthy diet, consuming fast food can increase your risk for... →

11/07/2016 - 14:04

The speakers provided a wealth of information, but for me, three key points rose to the top: Yes, GMOs are safe (and often misunderstood)... →

07/07/2016 - 11:53

The people perpetrating these microaggressions may be completely unaware that they hold a prejudiced view. Psychologists distinguish... →

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