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Sequencing chocolate : a good project really. Sequencing of any agricultural crop may have good impacts on promotion of such crop against diseases to improve resistant strains that result in higher yields. On the other hand, …

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Scientists are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. read more.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a five-chapter preview of the much-anticipated online Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF). read more.

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People in most countries around the world are happier these days. read more.

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This revives shuddering memories of the 1988 America’s Cup races, sailed atop the kelp forest off San Diego. Blades had to be installed on rudder and keel skegs to sever the architeuthys-sized leaves of the stuff floating about.

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The International Whaling Commission’s meeting in Chile wrapped up last week. So what happened to claims before hand that this meeting might make actually progress, rather than re-hashing the same old arguments?

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Chinese authorities have finally admitted that a photo of a super-rare South China Tiger was faked.

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Following last years dramatic ice sheet retreat in the Arctic the world’s media has got very excited about the possibility of an ice free North Pole this year.

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The US government is to pay $5.8 million to a bio-defence researcher named as a ‘person of interest’ in the 2001 anthrax incidents.

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