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Andrew Purcell The Insurance Hypothesis Farming monoculture, such as in this corn field, can lead to decreased net ecosystem CO2...
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Andrew Purcell Increasing average global temperatures are allowing alien species from Mediterranean climates to invade into more northerly areas....
As we seem to have no blog today, here's an opinion piece I wrote back in March... If the government...
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Andrew Purcell There can be few species on Earth about which more myths exist than piranhas. Piranhas have an...
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Andrew Purcell Coral reefs around the world are rapidly being degraded by a number of human activities including...
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James Pope If you own cows, don't feed them mouldy beet silage - it could be their last meal....
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Andrew Purcell One of the IPCC’s key predictions for climate change in Europe is that we will experience, on average,...
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Andrew Purcell Some shocking statistics about the world’s rivers: Every day, 2 million tons of human waste are disposed of...
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Andrew Purcell Earlier this month, researchers from New Zealand announced that they had observed wasps lifting up ants and carrying...
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Andrew Purcell Given that many Christians will be celebrating Easter this weekend, I thought it would be interesting to use...
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Andrew Purcell Forget cat’s eyes on our roads, now it’s all about the otters. Last week, it was announced that...
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Part of a project for the Imperial College London MSc in Science Communication. Made by Polly Bennett, Katya-yani Vyas &...
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This is Sir Isaac Newton drawn by a nine year old. He has crazy hair and a lab coat. It also...
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The art of collaboration. Art Attack meets Science Communication in this boffins meet Buchanan epic work of art.
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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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5. The ultrasound gun The sonic devastator Imagine the sound of fingernails scraping down a blackboard, then amplify it to...
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In I, Science's first podcast, we talk all about Unseen Science. Episode-1-Unseen-Science by iscience
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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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Scientists from Stanford Uni have recreated classic video games, navigated by controlling microscopic organisms.
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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...
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