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Eye-opening picture of fetal immune system emerges ▶

14 June 2017
 
 

Human fetuses have an immune system that acts differently from the adult version. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

The 'time machine' reconstructing ancient Venice's social networks ▶

14 June 2017
 
 

Machine-learning project will analyse 1,000 years of maps and manuscripts from the floating city's golden age. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

Plutonium accident, ancient amber and a call to climate scientists ▶

14 June 2017
 
 

The week in science: 9–15 June 2017. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Let Trump claim a better deal on climate ▶

14 June 2017
 
 

If we can stomach it, a 'renegotiation' of the Paris Agreement could help us all, says Elliot Diringer. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

US mental-health agency's push for basic research has slashed support for clinical trials ▶

13 June 2017
 
 

Analysis reveals that the number of clinical trials funded by the National Institute of Mental Health has fallen by 45% since the agency began to focus on the biological roots of disease. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

Resistance to last-ditch antibiotic has spread farther than anticipated ▶

12 June 2017
 
 

Emergence of colistin resistance in farm animals around the world takes researchers by surprise. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

Bats are global reservoir for deadly coronaviruses ▶

12 June 2017
 
 

Finding could help researchers to better predict where these viruses are likely to make the jump from animals to people. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

Ecologists warn of Japanese badger cull 'crisis' ▶

09 June 2017
 
 

Population crash feared amid a fad for badger meat. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

Shining a light on the dark corners of the web ▶

09 June 2017
 
 

Cybercrime researcher Gianluca Stringhini explains how he studies hate speech and fake news on the underground network 4chan. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

UK scientists hope for softened Brexit after shock election result ▶

09 June 2017
 
 

Conservative party loses majority but aims to form government. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

NIH scraps plans for cap on research grants ▶

08 June 2017
 
 

Agency plans to set up a separate fund for early- to mid-career investigators to help lower average age of NIH grantees. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

Text-mining tool seeks out 'hidden data' ▶

08 June 2017
 
 

Wide-Open checks that the data sets underlying published studies are made freely available. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

United States revives space-policy council after 24-year absence ▶

07 June 2017
 
 

US vice-president to head group overseeing civilian and military space activities. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

Physicists have finally created a 2D magnet ▶

07 June 2017
 
 

Just one atom thick, the magnet will allow researchers to perform previously impossible experiments. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 

Oldest Homo sapiens fossil claim rewrites our species' history ▶

07 June 2017
 
 

Remains from Morocco dated to 315,000 years ago push back our species' origins by 100,000 years — and suggest we didn't evolve only in East Africa. Read More ▶

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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