Austerity has put UK forensic labs in crisis and justice at risk
25 April 2018
Thousands of criminal cases are under review, forensic labs are failing to meet basic standards and some are just going bust. Where did it all go wrong?
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Acid lakes may be a false alarm but we can’t afford complacency
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Freshwater acidification might turn out to be a trivial problem but we don’t know how much danger aquatic life is in unless we can track down more data
To help heal the Korean peninsula try scientific cooperation too
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Research exchanges could help open up North Korea and reduce long-standing tensions with South Korea and its allies -if politicians will allow it, says Mark Zastrow.
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War veteran gets world's first penis and scrotum transplant
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24 April 2018
A species of tropical ant builds traps on tree trunks that allow them to catch prey almost fifty times their size, by biting their legs and spread-eagling them on the tree surface
Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
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Earth’s air suddenly got a lot more oxygen around 1.6 billion years ago and that could have triggered the evolution of large multicellular organisms
Finger-prick test reveals fetus's sex in the first trimester
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Women can now find out whether they are having a boy or a girl using a single drop of blood as soon as they are eight weeks pregnant
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A pair of mass extinctions struck in quick succession just before the dinosaur era, and the birth of a mountain range in South Africa may have been partly to blame
