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  • Recommended Reading: 'Map of Life' predicts ET, so where is he?

    Extra-terrestrials that resemble humans should have evolved on other, Earth-like planets, making it increasingly paradoxical that we still appear to be alone in the universe, the author of a new study on convergent evolution has claimed.The camera eye of an octopus is structurally similar to that of a human, but has evolved indepe…

  • UK: 2,000-year-old handwritten documents found in London mud

    Archaeologists announced Wednesday they have discovered hundreds of writing tablets from Roman London - including the oldest handwritten document ever found in Britain - in a trove that provides insight into the city's earliest history as a busy commercial town.Luisa Duarte, a conservator for the Museum of London, holds a piece of…

  • Travel: 'COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts' at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

    Dazzling treasures combining gold and precious pigments - some of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the world - will go on display on Saturday 30 July in celebration of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s bicentenary.The majority of the exhibits are from the Museum’s own rich collections, and those from the founding bequest of Viscount F…

  • Oceans: Almost all seabirds to have plastic in gut by 2050

    Researchers from CSIRO and Imperial College London have assessed how widespread the threat of plastic is for the world's seabirds, including albatrosses, shearwaters and penguins, and found the majority of seabird species have plastic in their gut.A red-footed booby on Christmas Island [Credit: CSIRO]The study, led by Dr Chris Wil…

  • Environment: Wildfire on warming planet requires adaptive capacity at local, national, international scales

    Industrialized nations that view wildfire as the enemy have much to learn from people in some parts of the world who have learned to live compatibly with wildfire, says a team of fire research scientists.A locale in the French Western Pyrenees, where communities practice fire management to maintain seasonally flammable grassland, …