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Our first Meat-eating Ancestor?

A 2.5-million-year-old addition to the human family tree has been found in Ethiopia

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What did Dinosaurs sound like?

Cyber paeleontologists reconstruct the roars of dinosaurs using fossil measurements

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What should we do with the last stocks of Smallpox?

Should the two remaining stocks of smallpox be destroyed?

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Sleeping with the Light off is good for our Eyes

Babies who sleep with the light on may be more likely to grow up to be near-sighted

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Ancient Ancestors and Modern Science in Nairobi

Meeting our earliest ancestors and the Aids-immune prostitutes helping doctors in Nairobi

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What causes the Signs of Age?

Looking for clues to the causes of ageing at a cellular level

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Will Spies ever use DNA to send Messages?

Using specially-coded DNA to send secret messages

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Chimpanzee Groups have Traditions, too

Different behaviours are transmitted down the generations of chimpanzees in the wild

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How Mesoamericans put the Bounce into Rubber Balls first

Ancient Mesoamericans and their sacred ball games played with bouncing rubber balls

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Rosetta space craft will tail a Comet

Scientists are sending Rosetta to tail a comet through space for two years

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Will this Study be a breakthrough for Alzheimer's disease?

Is there a treatment in sight for Alzheimer's Disease?

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The future of Genetically Modified Trees

Will "new improved" genetically modified trees help feed the world and fuel industry?

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Chandra X-ray Observatory tunes into big Cosmic Events

Chandra X-ray Observatory is launched to record the most violent events in the universe

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What this Lunar Crash Landing might reveal

Lunar Prospector is about to be crashed into the Moon

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Oxygen from the Primeval Slime

Cyanobacteria were at work 2.5 billion years ago, making oxygen

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Total Eclipse visible from UK to Bay of Bengal

Excitement in the eclipse's zone of totality

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A Plant Gene to overcome salty Soil

A gene for salt tolerance could enable crops to grow on irrigated land with salt build-up

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What's that Insect eating Everything in Sight?

Why farmers everywhere need the services of insect taxonomists

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Why do some People lose out on Sleep?

What causes disordered sleep patterns?

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British Association's Festival of Science in Sheffield

Sampling the offerings at the British Association's Festival of Science

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Who owns our Genes?

Who owns the human genes in samples held in laboratories worldwide?

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Engineering lessons from Earthquakes

Engineers will visit Taiwan to study the aftermath of this week's earthquake

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How do Animals reach the right Size?

Discovery of a gene that regulates cell size and growth rate in animals

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Outbreak of Parasitic Liver Disease in China

Devising new strategies to diagnose and predict alveolar echinococcosis (AE)

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Claims and Counter Claims over Crop Genes

Disputes about ownership of crop genes continue despite Monsanto's climb-down

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Inserting new Brain Cells to combat Disease

Will adding new brain cells be the answer to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's?

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Eavesdropping on Elephants

Eavesdropping on elephant conversations in the wild

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Saving Lives and Livelihoods in natural Disasters

How successful are attempts at "natural disaster reduction"?

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Malaria Researchers offer new Hope with Genome Maps

The malaria parasite's genome has been mapped – twice

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Understanding different Pain Responses

Separating chronic pain from the ordinary pain response that protects us

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