Nature News - Archive
Biology and other science news items from Nature News, the popular science syndication arm of the premier international science publisher, the Nature Publishing Group. Nature News is an authoritative and accessible online roundup of what's new in science research.
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June 21, 2017
The fight to save thousands of lives with sea-floor sensors
Geophysicists are ramping up their efforts to monitor major undersea faults for movement, and search for signs of the next catastrophic quake.
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June 20, 2017
Teeth tell tale of hippo’s quick spread across Africa
Fossils from ancient hippo ancestor suggest that grass helped the animals to conquer a continent.
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June 19, 2017
Ancient oak's youthful genome surprises biologists
DNA of 234-year-old tree has few mutations, giving weight to idea that plants protect their stem cells.
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June 9, 2017
Ecologists warn of Japanese badger cull 'crisis'
Population crash feared amid a fad for badger meat.
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June 7, 2017
Italy rebuked for failure to prevent olive-tree tragedy
European Commission reveals widespread delays by the country’s authorities to halt spread of deadly plant disease.
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June 7, 2017
Oldest "Homo sapiens" fossil claim rewrites our species' history
Remains from Morocco dated to 315,000 years ago push back our species' origins by 100,000 years — and suggest we didn't evolve only in East Africa.
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June 6, 2017
Gut bacteria can stop cancer drugs from working
Presence of particular microbes or enzymes could explain why some treatments are ineffective for certain people.
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June 1, 2017
Neuroscientists rethink how the brain recognizes faces
Brain cells in monkeys are tuned to react to specific combinations of features, rather than to a whole face.
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May 31, 2017
Biodiversity moves beyond counting species
Ecologists are increasingly looking at how richness of traits — rather than number of species — helps set the health of ecosystems.
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May 30, 2017
Mummy DNA unravels ancient Egyptians’ ancestry
Genetic analysis reveals a close relationship with Middle Easterners, not central Africans.
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