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 Tainted TNT Soils Treated with WeedsPlants able to grow on toxic explosive components could clean up contaminated compounds. ... 12th Sep 2011
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Acidic seas spell bad news for sea butterfliesSea butterflies may disappear from the Arctic as oceans get more acidic. ... 10th Sep 2011
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When is a sustainable fish not a sustainable fish?...When it's been mislabeled. A new genetics study shows that no all eco-labeled fish are what they say they are. ... 8th Sep 2011
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 Viral Gene alters Bug BehaviourScientists have identified the gene which allows a virus to manipulate its insect host’s behaviour for its own benefit... ... 5th Sep 2011
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Good News for Broken HeartsA completely computer-generated model of the human heart that can successfully predict the effects of anti-arrhythmic drugs has been developed by scientists in the US... ... 3rd Sep 2011
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 The Rocky Road to Fertilising ForestsThe rock underneath forests can act as a previously unknown source of nitrogen... ... 1st Sep 2011
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Antibiotic resistance is ancientBacterial antibiotic resistance genes have been discovered in soil frozen for over 30,000 years, Canadian scientists have shown. ... 31st Aug 2011
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 Scientists confirm Yersinia as cause of Black DeathThe Black Death, which killed a third of Europe's population in the middle ages, was caused by a now-extinct strain of the Yersinia pestis bacterium, a new study has shown. Using DNA from 100 skeletal samples excavated from a 14th Century plague pit in London's Smithfield, an international team of researchers led by McMaster University scientist Hendrik Poinar have succeeded in reconstructing a significant part of the genetic blueprint of the bug. ... 31st Aug 2011
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 Food for thought: probiotics alter brain chemistryExposure to probiotic bacteria can alter brain chemistry and calm anxiety responses, new research has revealed. Mice fed a diet enriched with Lactobacillus rhamnosus, a common probiotic consitutent, showed significant reductions in stress and depression-related behaviours and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol compared with control, broth-fed animals. ... 31st Aug 2011
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 Homo erectus, or Homo cordon-bleuensis?Whilst haute cuisine would appear to be a modern human trait, new research suggests that the art of cooking could well go back almost 2 million years. ... 26th Aug 2011
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