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Reforestation: Climate change solution or ‘ecosystem disservice’? Depends where you plant the trees

Nick Carne | Cosmos | 
Reforestation is an important part of tackling climate change, but it seems we need to think carefully about where we ...
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Electrical stimulation can ‘starve’ brain cancers, early study shows

Paul Biegler | Cosmos | 
Researchers have shown that electrical stimulation to the skull can starve brain cancers of vital nutrient-rich blood, opening the door ...
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‘Cancer lab’ on a chip could move diagnosis into our homes

Phil Dooley | Cosmos | 
Finding out you have cancer is bad enough, but to then have to go to hospital for a painful and ...
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Another mystery of our brains: ‘Why are we not hallucinating all the time?’

Nick Carne | Cosmos | 
It’s a question they might have asked for different reasons in the ’60s, but neuroscientists from Stanford University in the ...
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Forget batteries and wires. Can we build robots out of synthetic DNA?

Drew Turney | Cosmos | 
It's long been a dream of many to build robots that look and act like humans. After all, there's a ...
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International group of economists, geneticists calls for relaxed crop gene-editing rules to promote food security

Natalie Parletta | Cosmos | 
With renewed attention to implementation and regulation, new plant breeding technologies such as gene editing could make an important contribution ...
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New study claims first farmers in Europe were direct descendants of region’s hunter-gatherers, challenging belief migrants introduced agriculture

Andrew Masterson | Cosmos | 
For several years it has been broadly acknowledged that agriculture in Europe was first established in the Anatolian peninsula in modern day ...
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‘Second genesis’: Assessing the evidence for life on Mars

Richard Lovett | Cosmos | 
Today, the burning question isn’t whether Mars might once have been habitable – at various times in its distant past, ...
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Genetic analysis reveals mysterious evolution of brewer’s yeast that makes beer possible

Andrew Masterson | Cosmos | 
The strain of brewers’ yeast used to make beer, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, derives from versions used over thousands of years to ...
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Can frequent exercise epigenetically slow the aging process?

Paul Biegler | Cosmos | 
Research under way in Melbourne is showing that exercise can, literally, make your body younger. … [Researcher Sarah] Voisin tells ...
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Searching for keys to cancer resistance in the genome of giant tortoise Lonesome George

Nick Carne | Cosmos | 
An international research team has discovered several variants in tortoise genomes that potentially affect six of the nine hallmarks of ...
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Human, Neanderthal mating was more than just a ‘one night stand’, study suggests

Dyani Lewis | Cosmos | 
Once upon a time, prehistoric humans and our ancient Neanderthal cousins met and procreated. Except, that ‘once upon a time’ ...
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Why Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’ may not be all that mysterious

Nick Carne | Cosmos | 
For 140 years, scientists have been trying to explain what Charles Darwin described as “an abominable mystery”. Darwin was bothered by evidence ...
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Nothing to fear from hallucinations linked to macular degeneration, study shows

Nick Carne | Cosmos | 
Hallucinations linked to vision loss from macular degeneration are caused by abnormally heightened activity in the visual cortex of the ...
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‘Cradles of diversification’: Lagoons played key role in evolution of first vertebrates

Lauren Fuge | Cosmos | 
Scientists have discovered that shallow, lagoon-like environments were the cradle for vertebrate evolution, giving rise to our distant ancestors. A ...
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Controversial study: Humans were in Madagascar 6,000 years earlier than previously thought

Dyani Lewis | Cosmos | 
The butchered remains of extinct elephant birds could push back the date of human habitation of Madagascar by 6,000 years, according ...
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Poppy genome reveals ‘bizarre’ biological errors that gave us ‘intoxicating medicines’

Stephen Fleischfresser | Cosmos | 
A series of bizarre events and biological errors over evolutionary history were responsible for the intoxicating medicines found inside the ...
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From dinosaur to bird: How did the transformation take place?

Paul Willis | Cosmos | 
[I]n Bavaria, the Jurassic-aged limestone deposits yielded a near-perfect fossil of Archaeopteryx. It had blade-like serrated teeth and many other features ...
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Here’s why we now believe Neanderthals were able to create fire

Fiona McMillan | Cosmos | 
New research shows that Neanderthals were able to start fires using stone tools. The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, present ...
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Medical marijuana and pain control: Study casts doubt on drug’s effectiveness

Paul Biegler | Cosmos | 
Depending on who you listen to, medical cannabis is either a rising star in the world of therapeutics or an ...
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233 scientists call on world’s governments to ‘greatly restrict’ use of neonicotinoid insecticides to protect biodiversity

Andrew Masterson | Cosmos | 
Continued applications of the most widely used insecticides in the world must be urgently restricted, say 233 scientists in a tightly ...
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Evading Alzheimer’s: ‘Cognitive reserve theory’ suggests early education may be the best defense

Norman Swan | Cosmos | 
One great hope – for vitamin fans and researchers alike – is that dietary supplements could prevent the worsening of ...
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Psychedelic drug therapy could provide a ‘radical new answer’ to depression, PTSD, anxiety

Dyani Lewis | Cosmos | 
For years now a band of dedicated scientists has been quietly building a case to redeem the reputation of MDMA ...
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Life could have originated from ancient uranium-powered ‘nuclear geyser’

Richard Lovett | Cosmos | 
Life may not have originated in the primordial soup of an ancient pond, according to scientists, but rather in a ...
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Synthetic biology and viewing life not as ‘a mystery but as a machine’

James Crow | Cosmos | 
Imagine a future where synthetic jellyfish roam waterways looking for toxins to destroy, where eco-friendly plastics and fuels are harvested from ...
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Without solar superstorms, Earth could have been an uninhabitable gaseous ‘mini-Neptune’

Richard Lovett | Cosmos | 
Gigantic solar storms may have helped strip unwanted gases from the Earth’s atmosphere, while helping to seed its surface with ...
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What fossilized teeth tell us about human evolution

Stephen Fleischfresser | Cosmos | 
Examining the fossil record through the lens of evolutionary developmental biology may help scientists reassess the evolutionary history of humans ...
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Neonicotinoids, glyphosate may impact honeybees’ ability to taste and learn, ‘field realistic’ lab study claims

Tanya Loos | Cosmos | 
Hive-bound young honey bees (Apis mellifera) are being poisoned by insecticide and weed killer gathered by their foraging hive mates, ...
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