Snake ancestor was crawly as well as creepy.
Dave Martill, University of Portsmouth
A new study of the first ever snake fossil with legs suggests that snakes evolved on land rather than in the ocean, as previously thought.
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Artists and satirists have long played around with currency. With fiscal uncertainty only on the up, artsy cash is becoming more and more prevalent.
MRSA.
NIAID
Antibiotic resistance is pressing issue in medicine but the extensive use of antibiotics in farming is part of the problem.
Raise the (Thames) Barriers!
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With the sea level set to rise up to 1m by 2100, cities around the world must adapt, if they’re to avoid disaster.
Trying to find out how money is being spent in your area? It’s not always that easy.
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Groups in charge of the NHS budget for your care should be open, but more often than not it’s hard to tell how your where the money is going.
Reddit broke Reddit, it seems.
torley
Volunteers and unpaid labour make up much of the web – companies disrespect them at their peril.
Run silent, run high.
Engine by Christian Lagerek/shutterstock.com
Shouldn’t we make aircraft engines quieter? It turns out they’re the quietest they’ve ever been
There when you need it most. But safety nets are under threat.
Mark Setchell
When welfare budgets get cut, layers of help and guidance are slowly stripped away from the most vulnerable.
Poor Pappo. Didn’t know what he was missing.
David DeHetre/Flickr
A lack of fossils has made it impossibe to trace the origin and early evolution of turtles - until now.
Black holes don’t deserve their bad reputation, says study.
NASA/wikimedia
Black holes may not be the ferocious killers they are made out to be, suggests study.
Fighting back.
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New immunotherapy drugs that enhance the body’s natural ability to fight cancer offer several key advantages over previous treatments.
How long before the rhino joins the list?
Gerry Zambonini
Even if humans survive the planet will never be the same again.
Keep your eyes on the road.
Paleofuture
Driverless cars might require just as much driving as those we already use.
The hot dry conditions at low latitudes during the Triassic meant that only small carnivorous dinosaurs (background) could survive there.
Victor Leshyk
Changes in vegetation due to unreliable hot weather and high CO2 levels made early dinosaurs shun the topics for higher latitudes.
Other windows onto the world are available.
Tim Waters/flickr
Far from replacing the humanities, business education can embody liberal education in the universities of the future.
Funding is one but it won’t happen without the other two.
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What is holding back the discovery and development of any effective treatments for dementia?
Dino-cell hunting.
Laurent Mekul
Organic dinosaur remains were thought to be extremely rare – until now.
Many people consider sharks their friends.
Joi Ito
The celebrated movie inspired a generation of marine biologists to go in the water.
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
NASA
There’s no point promoting renewable technology if all the power still resides with fossil fuel firms.
The Cliffs of Moher look out over the Atlantic – but is the ocean endangering us on land?
Sami Pyylampi
Meet the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.