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Glioblastomas are an extremely aggressive type of brain tumour, which is why the news of a vaccine that has shown promise in fighting them is so exciting. Ian Sample talks to Prof Alan Melcher of the Institute of Cancer Research about how these vaccines work and whether they could one day be used to target cancer before it is even detectable on scans How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know.
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7 months ago Read more at The Guardian

In a controlled greenhouse at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, researchers have identified a way that shows promise for improving crop yields in simulated Martian soil. In their experiments, the researchers grew cherry tomatoes, peas and carrots together in pots. The tomatoes also flowered and matured earlier, gave more fruit per plant.
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7 months ago Read more at The Straits Times

The Surya Tilak project at the Ram temple in Ayodhya has been the subject of recent public interest. It involved constructing a mechanism to direct sunlight onto the forehead of the idol. The difficulty is that this festival follows a lunisolar calendar. In Indian calendars, Ram Navami falls on Chaitra Shukla 9.
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7 months ago Read more at The Indian Express

Geochronology is a toolkit of geological dating methods that allow us to assign absolute ages to rocks. Shaun Eaves , CC BY-SA Cosmic rays were first discovered in the early 1900s, but it took almost a century until sufficiently sensitive particle accelerators became available to accurately count the small number of rare atoms produced when they hit Earth. The presence of cosmogenic nuclides in rocks and sediments at the Earth’s surface is an indicator of atmospheric exposure
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7 months ago Read more at The Conversation

researchers at the University of Glasgow found parrots prefer live chats with their friends over pre-recorded messages. The study could lead the way for an animal-centred internet, researchers suggest. This is part of wider research they said could pave the way.
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7 months ago Read more at Sky News

Scientists are elected to the NAS by their peers. The NAS provides advice to the United States government on matters related to science and technology.
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7 months ago Read more at Stanford University News

Republican lawmakers at times raised their voices at the nonprofit’s leader, Peter Daszak, and said that they believed that he would fare poorly as a defendant in criminal court. EcoHealth Alliance, which receives federal funding to study global threats from wild animal viruses, has faced suspicion over a proposal that it made in 2018 to team up with Chinese scientists on novel coronavirus experiments that Republicans believe could have led to the pandemic. But in a report and in extensive questioning on Wednesday, the Republicans offered no
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7 months ago Read more at The New York Times

Professor Mark Thomson is a renowned Cambridge University particle physicist. He takes his campaign to Geneva to set out how he has the scientific credentials, experience and vision to lead the world’s foremost international centre for particle physics. The research taking place at CERN is at the cutting edge of physics, giving us incredible insights into the nature of the universe.
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7 months ago Read more at GOV.UK

Vermont Senate passed House Bill H706. It will ban such pesticides despite decades of safe use.It is now up to Vermont Governor Phil Scott to stop this “pollinator protection bill”.
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7 months ago Read more at Science 2.0

University Laboratory School junior Kian Sanchez conducted award-winning research on marine sponges at HIMB in UH Mnoa. Sanchez was interested in how sponges may be impacted by pollution and climate change.
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7 months ago Read more at University of Hawaii System