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	‘Survival of fittest’ is disputed Charles Darwin may have been wrong to argue that competition was the major driver of evolution, a study suggests.
	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.
	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.
	Food: Inside the hothouses of industry Feeding the world is going to require the scientific and financial muscle of ag
	US food waste worth more than offshore drilling A study of the energetic value of food wasted in the US each year shows the scale of the problem
	UK: Vince Cable appoints new Chief Executive for the Medical Research Council ... UK: Vince Cable appoints new Chief Executive for the Medical Research Council .
	Councils “key” to meeting 2020 targets Councils “key” to meeting 2020 targetsNew Energy FocusThe report, written for t
	Researchers use more GM animals The number of UK scientific experiments involving genetically modified animals
	Motherly love 'breeds confidence' Babies whose mothers shower them with affection are better at coping with stres
	Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass They're often branded as thoughtless and irresponsible, but teenage mothers and deadbeat dads may be making the best of their bad situations
	Race to find 'God particle' hots up Researchers working with the Large Hadron Collider have published their first d
	Ecology: A world without mosquitoes Eradicating any organism would have serious consequences for ecosystems — would
	Businesses 'profit from nature' Companies as well as governments will reap dividends from paying for nature, a
	Losing battle Efforts to protect biodiversity could make things worse
	Universities shun Europe's drug initiative Intellectual-property rules push researchers away.

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