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- 25.08.10
‘Survival of fittest’ is disputed
Charles Darwin may have been wrong to argue that competition was the major driver of evolution, a study suggests.
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- 25.08.10
Digital DNA
The sketch that helped discover the 'secret of life' - six years after Crick's death, the Wellcome Library in central London is making many of his private research papers available on the web, including an early sketch of the DNA double helix.
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- 25.08.10
Home efficiency
Experts build a house to test energy-saving technologies. The first brick was laid on Monday, and the university's Energy Hub team hopes the project will shed light on the best ways to reduce energy consumption in the UK's existing building stock.
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Policy Fellows Programme Launched
May saw the launch, in pilot form, of our Policy Fellowship Programme, with week-long visits to Cambridge by the Head of EU Research Policy in the International Science and Innovation Unit of BIS and the Director of the Public Sector Broadband Aggregation Network for the Welsh Assembly Government. More....
Our Easter Island Moment: is it already too late to save the environment?
Sarah Mukherjee delivered the CSaP's third distinguished lecture having recently left her role as the BBC’s Environmental Correspondent. She promised a commentary unmuffled by institutional constraints, and she delivered handsomely on that promise. More....

New guidelines on the use of scientific advice
The Government has published the Chief Scientific Adviser's Guidelines on the Use of Scientific and Engineering Advice in Policy Making - designed to help clarify the place of scientific advice in policy.
