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The government has survived two big challenges to its controversial plans to change the law on embryo research for the first time in 20 years.
A cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote, by 336 to 176.
Catho..
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Research has cast new doubt on the wisdom of using Sun-blocking sulphate particles to cool the planet.
Sulphate injections are one of several "geo-engineering" solutions to climate change being discussed by scientists.
But data published in Science..
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BBC News
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The German parliament has voted to ease restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, which is controversial on ethical grounds.
Under the existing German law, researchers have only been allowed to use human embryonic stem cells harvested abroad before..
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BBC News
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Elephants keep track on up to 30 absent relatives by sniffing out their scent and building up a mental map of where they are, research suggests.
Herd members use their good memory and keen sense of smell to stay in touch as they travel in large groups,..
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BBC News
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Mice carrying a gene which appears to make them invulnerable to cancer may hold the key to safer and more effective treatments for humans.
The new breed, created with a more active "Par-4" gene, did not develop tumours, and even lived longer, said the..
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MSNBC
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The Oregon announcement is very welcome news if you suffer from diabetes, nerve damage, paralysis or heart failure. Cloning human embryos using the Oregon technique should jump-start embryonic stem cell research using your own cells to get the process goi..
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Physorg
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Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and, like southern Sweden today, had a relatively mild climate. Eske Willerslev, a professor at Copenhagen University, has analysed the world’s oldest DNA,..
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Boston Globe
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The latest technical advance out of MIT could dramatically change the drudgery of recharging portable devices: An MIT research team has figured out how to wirelessly illuminate an unplugged light bulb from seven feet away.
Details about WiTricity, or w..
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Reuters
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health, which supports a variety of biomedical studies using animals, will stop breeding government-owned chimpanzees for research -- a step animal rights advocates lauded on Thursday.
The NIH's National Center for Resea..
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BBC News
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Alarmist messages about global warming are counter-productive, the head of a leading climate research centre says.
Professor Mike Hulme, of the UK's Tyndall Centre, has been conducting research on people's attitudes to media portrayals of a catastrophi..
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Yahoo News
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Massachusetts' governor proposed on Tuesday to spend $1 billion on biotechnology over 10 years, aiming to fill a federal funding shortfall caused by the Bush administration's opposition to embryonic stem-cell research.
Challenging California's dominanc..
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BBC News
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A new book reveals how recent research has uncovered a goldmine of information about the history of human habitation in Britain.
Here, Homo britannicus author Chris Stringer describes how efforts to search for evidence of early Britons were hampered by..
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www.scientificblogging.com
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The study reveals the likely mechanism by which the Arabidopsis plant flowers in response to changes in day length. Earlier research had shown that plants' leaves perceived seasonal changes in day length, which triggers a long-distance signal to travel th..
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Recent findings have uncovered that when listening to a rythmic sound, the motor region of our brain is active even if our body isn't. Research also shows, for the first time, activation of another area of our brain, the visual center, when temporarily bl..
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Guardian Unlimited
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A bridge next to Kevin Eggan's laboratory overlooks one of the most concentrated square miles of scientific fire power in the world: North Yard, the science hub of Harvard. The bridge, a recent construction in glass and steel, was intended to facilitate..
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Physorg
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Nuclear research officials in Geneva, Switzerland, expressed confidence that the Large Hadron Collier particle accelerator would be ready for use in 2007...
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Physorg
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The recent retreat of Arctic sea ice is likely to accelerate so rapidly that the Arctic Ocean could become nearly devoid of ice during summertime as early as 2040, according to new research published in the December 12 issue of Geophysical Research Letter..
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BBC News
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A woman's voice becomes more alluring when she is at her most fertile, according to US research.
Recordings of women taken at different points in their menstrual cycle were played to people of both sexes.
New Scientist magazine reports that the voic..
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BBC News
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Research has thrown further doubt on the notion that cosmic rays are a major influence on the Earth's climate.
The idea that modern global warming is due to changes in cloudiness caused by solar influences on cosmic rays is popular with "climate sceptics..
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BBC News
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Male fertility problems are determined in the womb, research from the University of Edinburgh suggests.
Common genital disorders, low sperm count and testicular cancer could all be linked to hormone levels early in pregnancy, studies in rats suggest...
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