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Supergiant crustaceans from the deep!

Blog post: Scientists find incredible foot-long amphipods 7km down in deep ocean trench

Study predicts climate-change effects on malaria

Patterns of malaria infection are likely to change across Africa before 2050

NASA's new Blue Marble image

Blog post: A new super-detailed picture of the Earth from space, from NASA's Suomi-NPP satellite

Revitalising urban rivers and hot conservation topics

Podcast: How science can bring new life to the River Wandle, and marine environment tops list of next hot conservation topics

Study predicts climate-change effects on malaria

NASA's new Blue Marble image

Revitalising urban rivers and hot conservation topics

Supergiant crustaceans from the deep!

MRI scan of a Laetoli footprint

Best foot forward

3 February 2012

How techniques developed to study ancient footprints are finding unexpectedly direct uses in modern life.

Dave Green

The tale of dimethyl sulphoxide

Unravelling the role of an enigmatic marine chemical.

27 January 2012


Winter 2011

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Winter 2011

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Cross section of a leaf

Dry conditions spurred advanced photosynthesis

Saving water drove evolution of new way of harvesting sunlight.

2 February 2012

Storm brewing

Climate-change effects on malaria risk

Weather-disease model indicates changes to infection patterns.

3 February 2012

River Wandle

Revitalising urban rivers, hot conservation topics

How science is helping to bring polluted urban rivers back to life.

31 January 2012

Huge colony of yeti crabs

The Hoff Crab, North Sea fisheries, flood prediction

New species from the Southern Ocean's hydrothermal vents.

17 January 2012