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ResearchTomography allows ancient texts to rise from the ashes
Scroll from town destroyed in Vesuvius eruption over 2000 years ago deciphered
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NewsRoadmap to fast track Ebola vaccine development
Expert panel recommends developing multiple vaccines and targeting at risk groups
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ResearchChitosan bioelectrode sustains metabolic power to medical implants
Shrimp shell and fruit extracts improve lifespan of glucose biofuel cells
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NIH institute looks to end funding monopolies
New guidelines aim to spread grant money more evenly to avoid it accumulating in the hands of research superstars
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ResearchCaddisfly silk gets shocked into self-recovery
Discovery may help scientists design new underwater adhesives
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Open access journal to pay peer reviewers
A portion of the article processing charge will be put aside to create a fund to reward referees
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MFG Chemical fined after worker dies
Company cited for multiple safety failings before the fatal incident
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ResearchChemistry's toughest total synthesis challenge put on hold by lack of funds
‘Seemingly impossible’ synthesis of highly potent poison maitotoxin nears completion after eight years
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NewsNew EU law set to open door to GM crops
Legislation that will let member states ban GMOs expected to ease approval of GM crops by Europe
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ResearchBlowing up brain tissue with swelling polymer delivers sharper images
Tissue samples inflated to four times their size to overcome microscopy limitations
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ResearchSuper-dipoles linked to chloroform’s outstanding solvent properties
Polar stacks facilitate dissolution by polarising electron clouds of nearby solutes
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NewsVeterinary painkiller threatens Europe's vultures
Drugs that almost drove vultures to extinction on the Indian sub-continent are now being used in Europe
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ResearchPheromone trap will not let the bed bugs bite
Bed bugs are attracted to chemicals in their own faeces, which could make infestations easier to spot
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US science funder updates policy on same sex partners
National Institutes of Health now recognises same sex marriages in its grants policies
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ResearchFish sperm spawns rare earth metal recycling idea
Technique could provide a cheap, green way of recovering scarce metals from electronic waste
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ResearchTaj Mahal browning due to light-absorbing particles
Researchers have identified the pollutants behind the marble monument’s gradual colour change
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Ansun settles fraud case for $2m
Executives fiddled timesheets to overcharge US funding agency on grants and research contracts
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ResearchInfrared offers odds on skin cancer spreading
Identifying melanomas that have not metastasised could help patients avoid unnecessary and unpleasant additional treatment
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ResearchProtein mutant libraries to probe diseases' genetic link quickly and cheaply
More than 90% of the potential individual amino acid mutations possible introduced into cancer-linked protein
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ResearchDNA origami makes moving machines
Hinge-like structures can open and close again and again on binding of DNA