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• Parents of disabled child appeal to MPs to allow ‘three-person embryos’

  22 Oct 2014: Parents of baby with fatal mitochondrial disease say techniques being considered by select committee could prevent them having another seriously ill child

• Dakota the duckbilled dinosaur, aged 67 million, finds a home in Bismarck

  21 Oct 2014: Rare Edmontosaurus, one of only few mummified dinosaurs in existence, to go on display at North Dakota Heritage Center

• Stereo pictures more than a Victorian relic

  21 Oct 2014: Letters: Such stereoscopic viewing is routinely used in scientific papers published in journals of structural molecular biology

• Unearthing the secrets of evolution through cave exploration

  Sponsored feature, 21 Oct 2014: Cave exploration, or Speleology, is providing valuable insights into evolution. Italian explorer Francesco Sauro describes the importance of underground investigation

• Tackling antibiotic-resistant bacteria through collaborative networking

  Sponsored feature, 21 Oct 2014: Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is an increasingly pressing global issue. Hosam Zowawi is part of a campaign to increase knowledge and awareness of the subject in the Gulf region

• How super-resolution microscopy made me fall in love with science (again)

  21 Oct 2014: Steve Caplan: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a super-resolution image may be worth a thousand gigabytes – and it’s changing the course of biomedical research

• Venomous spider found in Waitrose shopping 'beautiful but aggressive'

  20 Oct 2014: While most spiders scurry away when confronted, the Brazilian wandering spider stands its ground, says invertebrate expert Dave Clarke

• First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’

  19 Oct 2014: Fossils of 380m-year-old lake-dwelling placoderms point to bony, L-shaped male organ and female ‘cheese-grater’ genitals, scientists say

• Caw vs. Kraa: meaning in the calls of crows and ravens

  18 Oct 2014: GrrlScientist: This short video, by the Cornell Lab of O, discusses the differences between and potential meanings of the sounds made by crows and ravens.

• Space talk: Ann Leckie and Caleb Scharf – books podcast

  Audio (32min 22sec), 17 Oct 2014:

  We turn our gaze to the stars, with multiple award-winning science fiction writer Ann Leckie and astrobiologist Caleb Scharf

• New books party: Books that arrived recently

  17 Oct 2014: GrrlScientist: After my bookgasm (book-buying binge) at last week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, I’ve got a mountain of wonderful books to share with you -- a project that will take place over the next few weeks.

• Sugary soft drinks may be linked to accelerated DNA ageing – study

  16 Oct 2014: Research finds that people who reported drinking 350ml of fizzy drink per day had DNA changes typical of cells 4.6 years older

• Giant kangaroo weighed 240kg, looked like a rabbit and walked like a human

  15 Oct 2014: Scientists believe the now-extinct two-legged sthenurine kangaroo was more than two metres tall and unable to hop

• Visualised: how Ebola compares to other infectious diseases

  15 Oct 2014: David McCandless visualises how the deadliness and infectiousness of Ebola compares to other pathogens

• Chemical signal gives melanoma cancer cells a ‘green light’ to spread

  15 Oct 2014: Dr Nick Peel: Researchers have identified a chemical that melanoma cells follow when they spread around the body – raising the prospect of eventually switching it off

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