Researchers at the University of York have identified genetic markers for disease tolerance that suggest UK ash trees may have a fighting chance against a fungal infection, which has the potential to wipe out 90% of the European ...
Ecology
Dec 26, 2016
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Scientists at the University of York have found that oil palm plantations, which produce oil for commercial use in cooking, food products, and cosmetics, may act as a barrier to the movement of butterflies across tropical ...
Environment
Dec 19, 2016
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Studying dental plaque from a 1.2 million year old hominin (early human species), recovered by the Atapuerca Research Team in 2007 in Sima del Elefante in northern Spain, archaeologists extracted microfossils to find the ...
Archaeology
Dec 14, 2016
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Scientists have discovered that a gene found in the common fruit fly can be successfully expressed in a plant and used to detoxify land contaminated with TNT.
Ecology
Dec 7, 2016
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A team of international archaeologists believe a pair of mummified legs on display in an Italian museum may belong to Egyptian Queen Nefertari - the favourite wife of the pharaoh Ramses II.
Archaeology
Dec 5, 2016
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A 'chemical factory' on the surface of plant leaves could help produce more commercially useful products, researchers at the University of York have found.
Biotechnology
Dec 5, 2016
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A subtle change occurred in our evolutionary history 100,000 years ago which allowed people who thought and behaved differently - such as individuals with autism - to be integrated into society, academics from the University ...
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2016
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Scientists at the University of York have charted more than 1,000 years of Tanzanian environmental history using sediments extracted from a peat bog.
Environment
Nov 8, 2016
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Important archaeological remains at wetland sites across the world could be at immediate risk, say scientists at the University of York.
Environment
Oct 31, 2016
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Eastern Africa has been a major source of elephant ivory for millennia, with a sharp increase in trade witnessed during the 19th century fuelled by escalating demand from Europe and North America.
Ecology
Oct 19, 2016
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