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Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) There is a paradox in nature conservation, that the efforts taken to protect a species from extinction,...
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The Amateur Transplants Here at Imperial College we're pretty used to being labelled geeks. We all like science enough to...
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(Photo Credit: Andrew Purcell) The way we perceive the world is inevitably shaped by the models created in our brains....
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Andrew Purcell Ever since French entomologists August Magnan and André Sainte-Lague famously declared that bee flight was aerodynamically impossible, a...
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Amur (Siberian) Tiger Panthera tigris altaica (Photo by Andrew Purcell) The Chinese Year of the Tiger came to an end...
Following all the arctic antics and farmyard fun on the blog this week I’m sorry to say that today we turn...
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Everything must go! Please, please, please handle with care. Given the disappointing economic growth figures announced on Tuesday, it is...
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Over recent days, many analysts have been quick to highlight the prominent role that social media technology has played in...
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Andrew Purcell Painted Lady (Cynthia cardui) Almost a third of butterflies in Europe are in decline and one in ten...
19/06/2005 Zoë Corbyn takes a test-drive in a Twike, the world's most efficient motorised vehicle, and discovers why a pair...
08/02/2006 Three years ago, after yet another Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) had failed and science seemed a never-ending series of...
