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• Fresh doubts over T. rex chicken link - Premium content

  Critics call on researchers to disclose protein spectra data.

  21 August 2008

• Too close for comfort - Premium content

  Nancy Haigwood, director of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, describes her encounters with anthrax suspect Bruce Ivins.

  21 August 2008

• Technological advances behind the anthrax investigation - Premium content

  Machines can quickly compare strains and pinpoint origin.

  06 August 2008

• Mexican mangroves well worth saving - Premium content

  Fishing survey puts dollar value on endangered ecosystems.

  21 July 2008

• Scientists rally to Mexican researchers' plea - Premium content

  Dispute threatens to tear physical-sciences institute apart.

  09 July 2008

• Whales are on the rise - Premium content

  Humpback population shows signs of recovery.

  21 May 2008

• Early Americans had a coastal diet - Premium content

  Settlers travelled to the coast to get their seaweed.

  08 May 2008

• Climate troubles brewing for beer makers - Premium content

  Rising temperatures are affecting European hop harvests.

  02 May 2008

• US ocean-research projects in dire economic straits - Premium content

  Multiple marine projects under threat from cash squeeze.

  30 April 2008

• Fossil faeces pinpoint earliest North Americans - Premium content

  Evidence confirms humans were in the Americas more than 14,000 years ago.

  03 April 2008