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If you’re a military veteran, you’ve likely met an Airman Snuffy.

The inventor of the Gaia hypothesis dies, aged 103 | Science & technology

The startling installation was the opening exhibition of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival on Friday - and featured the 8kg (17lb) stone dominoes which ran from Anglia Square to the Forum.

Eventbrite - Matthew Jacobson presents Comerford | Jacobson | Maynard Smith play Mingus, Monk and Ornette - Sunday, 13 March 2022 at The Workman's Club, Dublin 2, Dublin. Find event and ticket information.

Sparrows Point Steel, an offshore wind deployment hub being constructed by US Wind at the former site of Bethlehem Steel, is expected to begin construction in 2024 and to begin producing monopiles for wind turbines in 2025. US Wind announced the timeline, along with other updates regarding the progression of the project, which was announced ...

The two-fold cost of sex explains why it might not be so advantageous to be a sexually reproducing organism. John Maynard Smith (1978) asked us to imagi...

Current Biology. That paper stated: In laboratory-based experimental evolution of novel phenotypes and the human domestication of crops, the majority of the mutations that lead to adaptation are loss-of-function mutations that impair or eliminate the function of genes rather than gain-of-function mutations that increase or qualitatively alter the function of proteins. Murrays paper vindicated Behes thesis which also argued tha t "random mutation and natural selection are in fact fiercely de...