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Pandemic creates ‘surge’ of flawed research
Agence France-Presse . Paris | Updated at 10:37am on October 02, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a surge in potentially flawed scientific studies as researchers rush to publish results without adequate oversight, a leading medical ethicist...
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Astrocytes hold the key to sleep: research
United News of Bangladesh | Updated at 05:11pm on September 27, 2020
American researchers claim to have solved the mystery of why and how we sleep. They say the findings can pave the way for advanced scientific...
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Mobile phone radiation may be killing insects: German study
Agence France-Presse .Berlin | Updated at 11:21am on September 18, 2020
Radiation from mobile phones could have contributed to the dramatic decline in insect populations seen in much of Europe in recent years, a German study...
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Scientists find world’s oldest sperm in Myanmar amber
Agence France-Presse .Berlin | Updated at 10:16am on September 16, 2020
A team of palaeontologists discovered what they believedis the world’s oldest animal sperm, frozen inside a tiny crustacean in a blob of tree resin in...
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Scientists search for food plant genes
Agence France-Presse. Paris | Updated at 02:40pm on December 03, 2019
Scientists have been on a global search for the wild relatives of food crops, hoping to bolster their defences against disease and climate change, a...
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Plant extinction ‘bad news for all species’
New Age Desk | Updated at 12:10am on June 12, 2019
Almost 600 plant species have been lost from the wild in the last 250 years, according to a comprehensive study, reports BBConline. The number is...
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Scientists edit chicken genes
Reuters . London | Updated at 12:36am on June 04, 2019
Scientists in Britain have used gene-editing techniques to stop bird flu spreading in chicken cells grown in a lab — a key step towards making...