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How reindeers keep their cool

How reindeers keep their cool

With all the exercise reindeers supposedly get up to (think flying across the globe) how do they keep cool with such a well-insulating coat? Here’s the answer
Stealing Our Thunder: Does Biology Deserve its Own Nobel Prize?

Stealing Our Thunder: Does Biology Deserve its Own Nobel Prize?

Biologist Svante Pääbo won a 2022 Nobel Prize for his sequencing of the neanderthal genome – so why did is the category Physiology or Medicine?
Nobel Prize awarded to scientists who discovered Hepatitis C

Nobel Prize awarded to scientists who discovered Hepatitis C

Read more about the Nobel Prize winners and their fundamental discovery of the Hepatitis C virus

UK scientists dominate at 2016 Nobel Prize ceremonies

Earlier this month, the prestigious Nobel Prize ceremonies began, with the prizes for Physics, Chemistry and Medicine and Physiology announced