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It turns out that the mysterious circle of giant stones that stand in the south west of England are, and have always been, tombstones. This latest news from Stonehenge has picked up loads of coverage since the announcement by Mike…

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• University of Oxford says: show me the money
• Does Age Discrimination Belong in the Lab?
• Ancestry Surprises From New Genetics Analysis Method

Over here in the UK we’re used to our universities looking like paupers compared to America’s. Hell, every university looks like a pauper compared to the Ivy League. But the University of Oxford has had enough. …

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• So _that's_ what Stonehenge is for…
• Does Age Discrimination Belong in the Lab?
• Ancestry Surprises From New Genetics Analysis Method

Crick Had geneticist Oliver Smithies pursued his work in England, he might not have won the Nobel Prize. So says British zoologist Peter Lawrence in an article published yesterday in Nature. He describes the difficulties faced by older …

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• University of Oxford says: show me the money
• So _that's_ what Stonehenge is for…
• Ancestry Surprises From New Genetics Analysis Method

An anonymous reader commends a recently published study involving a new way to analyze genetic variation in human populations (full article published in PLOS Genetics): “[S]cientists from Ireland, the UK and the US analysed 2540 genetic …

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• University of Oxford says: show me the money
• So _that's_ what Stonehenge is for…
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