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Opinion: Large Hadron Collider sees tantalising hints of a new particle that could revolutionise physics

Harry Cliff (Cavendish Laboratory) discusses the potential discovery of a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider and its implications for particle physics.

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Areas of Britain most affected by ‘bedroom tax’ are hardest to downsize in, research finds

Research commissioned by government following housing benefit reforms finds increase in tenants self-selecting to downsize, but the areas hardest hit by reform are those least equipped with appropriate housing stock. Researchers found households increasingly cutting back on essentials such as food and heating to make up...

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Landslides after Nepal earthquake 'could have been much worse'

Scientists join together to map and assess thousands of co-seismic and post-seismic landslides in aftermath of earthquake.

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Opinion: How close are we to successfully editing genes in human embryos?

Azim Surani (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) discusses gene editing of the human germline.

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King’s College Chapel: an architectural masterpiece and the man who told its story

Five hundred years ago the masons working on one of the world’s most famous buildings completed the stonework of a chapel conceived some 70 years earlier. For several decades, King’s College Chapel had stood partially built in the heart of Cambridge. The story of the chapel is told in riveting detail by John Saltmarsh, who...

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“Never was so much owed by so many to so few”: Could phrases like this hold clues about universal grammar?

A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the Verb Second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people acquire language.

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Low cost, safe and accurate test could help diagnose rare childhood cancers

A non-invasive, low cost blood test that could help doctors diagnose some types of malignant childhood tumour has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Health NHS Foundation Trust.

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Millet: the missing piece in the puzzle of prehistoric humans’ transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers

New research shows a cereal familiar today as birdseed was carried across Eurasia by ancient shepherds and herders laying the foundation, in combination with the new crops they encountered, of ‘multi-crop’ agriculture and the rise of settled societies. Archaeologists say ‘forgotten’ millet has a role to play in modern crop...

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The periodic table of proteins

Researchers have devised a periodic table of protein complexes, making it easier to visualise, understand and predict how proteins combine to drive biological processes.

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Feeding food waste to pigs could save vast swathes of threatened forest and savannah

New research suggests that feeding our food waste, or swill, to pigs (currently banned under EU law) could save 1.8 million hectares of global agricultural land – an area roughly half the size of Germany, including hundreds of thousands of acres of South America’s biodiverse forests and savannahs – and provide a use for...

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