The Guardian
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Bad luck, bad journalism and cancer rates
Please, journalists, get a clue before you write about science
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The quagga now standing on three legs is next in line for Bone Idol restoration
The creature standing rather unsteadily in a zoology museum in London is among the rarest in the world, and frankly she’s not looking her best. The creature standing rather unsteadily […]
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How we grin to bear it – the science of smiling
‘The curve that sets everything straight” was how comedian Phyllis Diller once described the smile. And it’s true that there’s something charming, trustworthy and disarming about a smile – but […]
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Skull of oldest horned dinosaur in North America found
Fossil from tiny plant eater, Aquilops americanus, suggests horned dinosaurs originated in Asia
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Albert Einstein archive reveals the genius, doubts and loves of scientist
Early note shows delight at birth of his daughter while later letters show fame was beginning to be a trial
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Astronomers solve mystery of the universe’s missing stars
For more than a decade scientists have been at a loss to explain why there are fewer stars than they predicted
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3D compass cells found in the bat brain
Head direction cells in the bat hippocampus encode three-dimensional representations of space
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Climate change drove mastodons to the brink, humans pushed them over
Climate change played a pivotal role in the extinction of mastodons in North America, new radiocarbon dating of fossils has revealed – though hunting by people may have been the […]
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Making gravity-free espresso in space really is rocket science
Specially designed ‘ISSpresso’ machine overcomes absence of gravity by firing pressurised water through capsule of coffee