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by Midori Yajima How unlikely it is to think that many people who decided to dedicate themselves to a natural sciences-related field wondered at least once about the life of an eighteenth-century naturalist? Picture Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin or Joseph Banks expeditions, or René Malaise and Gustav Eisen's impressive efforts in gathering human specimens ... Continue reading "Hidden legacies: what do colonialism and natural sciences have to do with each other?"
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Yesterday, a Blue Plaque was unveiled to the botanist, and philosopher and historian of botany, Agnes Arber (1879-1960). This event both paid tribute to a pioneer who made a significant mark in her field and reflects the English Heritage scheme's ambition to increase the numbers of women and other under-represented groups commemorated by its plaques....
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Genetic clues in the water could lead scientists to the last surviving populations of frogs on the brink of extinction - and it could be our last hope to find them. For decades, scientists have slowly scoured remote mountain ranges in search of rare frog species that have vanished from the wilderness, often to no avail. But in new research, scientists from James Cook University's Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER) have found it's possible to find traces of a
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The justices overruled a lower court that had paused the Trump administration's plan to fire over 1,300 workers.
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