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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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