Watching starling murmurations as the birds swoop, dive and wheel through the sky is one of the great pleasures of a dusky winter's evening. From Naples to Newcastle these flocks of agile birds are all doing the same incredible ...
Ecology
Feb 6, 2019
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Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green "children of Woolpit", who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and were reported to have ...
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2018
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Machine learning is a powerful tool used for a variety of tasks in modern life, from fraud detection and sorting spam in Google, to making movie recommendations on Netflix.
Astronomy
Dec 1, 2016
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The motto of the Royal Society, Britain's and perhaps the world's oldest scientific society, is "nullius in verba" which it says translates as "take nobody's word for it".
Other
Dec 1, 2016
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Few technologies have the power that particle accelerator technology has to touch upon such a broad range of applications at the many frontiers of modern science. Today, thanks to improvements in laser technology, a new generation ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 1, 2015
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Media and popular culture might portray religion and science as being at odds, but new research from Rice University suggests just the opposite.
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2015
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Plastics are a miracle of modern science and are now fundamental to our everyday lives. Of course, they are also a constant reminder of our throwaway society. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), chemist ...
Materials Science
Jan 8, 2015
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An international team of scientists has completed the largest whole genome study of a single class of animals to date. To map the tree of life for birds, the team sequenced, assembled and compared full genomes of 48 bird ...
Biotechnology
Dec 11, 2014
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Why did anatomically modern humans replace Neandertals in Europe around 40,000 years ago?
Archaeology
Sep 17, 2013
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A DNA sequencing breakthrough has used samples from Kew's Fungarium to show that genetic information can be accessed from even very old samples, holding out the promise of significant discoveries which may have profound impacts ...
Biotechnology
Jul 15, 2013
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