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Can soya bean consumption harm sperm?
Scientists in China have been studying genistein, a naturally-occurring ingredient of soya beans that they claim could interfere with the […]
Continue readingScientists: Copenhagen pledges will see global temps rise past 2°C
An opinion piece from climate scientists due out in today’s journal Nature says that unless major loopholes in the Copenhagen […]
Continue readingDNA transfer prevents mitochondrial disease in humans
AusSMC: In a world-first study to be published in Nature, scientists have shown in human embryos a new technique developed […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: Climate science, NZ in Nature & the Nutt affair
SMC Climate science briefing Confused by the avalanche of climate science papers that have emerged this year? Need an update […]
Continue readingBacteria hedge their bets
Research by an international team of scientists including Professor Paul Rainey from the New Zealand Institute of Advanced Study has […]
Continue readingBurying carbon emissions – where do they go?
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) — in geological formations deep underground — is one of the major options proposed by […]
Continue readingMIT’s open access push for scientific research
So what happens to the traditional cycle of publishing scientific research in journals when a major player like the Massachusetts […]
Continue readingPeking Man’s age revised by 200,000 years
The bones of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus, commonly known as ‘Peking Man’, may be 200,000 years older than previously thought, according […]
Continue readingExpert comment on Nature Antarctic warming paper
New research published in the journal Nature suggests that Antarctica is warming despite earlier signs that the icy continent was […]
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