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monkey cells. Those monkey cell cultures were contaminated with a virus called SV40, which we now know can cause tumours. Thousa ...
HUMAN BODY INDIVIDUAL CELLS CRAWL TO THE SITE OF WOUNDS, USING THEIR OUTER EDGES AS ‘FEET’ PHOTOS: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY, NASA/H ...
THEY DID WHAT?! Budgies taught grammar What did they do? Scientists at Duke University taught budgies to understand basic gramma ...
FISH TAUGHT TO RECOGNISE HUMAN FACES Call it ‘plaice recognition’ (get it?). A team at the University of Oxford has found that a ...
SPRING COMES EARLY TO CITIES Light from street lamps causes trees to start producing leaves up to a week earlier in cities than ...
COMMENT & ANALYSIS umans spend a lot of time picking things up and putting them down again. We hardly ever think about it. B ...
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THE DAY THE DINOSAURS DIED For the first time, scientists have drilled into the heart of the Chicxulub crater – the landing site ...
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In the late 1970s, the Mexican oil company Pemex was scouring the Gulf of Mexico for possible sites to drill. A ring of mountain ...
ABOVE: Expedition 364 set up a scientific platform in the ocean and spent April and May drilling into the seabed to extract core ...
0 Sea 19 m deep 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1,000 1,100 1,200 1,300 1,400 Metres A planet in shock Earth in the hours, y ...
the local conditions in the immediate aftermath of the impact. One of those given the responsibility of studying these fossils i ...
Gulf of Mexico USA Chicxulub crater Drill Site 200km us more about the response of the world’s plants to the event – and the din ...
Further down, in the underlying granite, the trauma caused by the impact may have created opportunities for microorganisms. “At ...
the centrepoint and the rim. According to Gulick, we can also see structures like this on the Moon, on Mercury and Mars, “but we ...
planet,” he explains. The prevailing model to explain this mountainous ring is that following the initial impact there was some ...
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A pair of northern gannets have chosen to nest in a boat in Baia dell’Olivo, Porto Venere, Italy, for the past four years. Wildl ...
ABOVE: Nelson returns from a fishing trip while Roz guards the nest. The parents take it in turns to incubate the egg. According ...
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