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Would you trust this man?

Politicians wishing to alter their 'public faces' could make themselves appear trustworthy if they manipulated photographs of themselves.

Date
4 July 2004
Category
Research

Tackling alarming loss of species

The world's Governments may not be able to reach international targets for saving plant and animal species and their habitats because there are no reliable measurements of the rate at which they are disappearing, the Royal Society warned today (15th October 2002).

Date
14 October 2002
Category
Public interest stories

Solar scientist appointed Royal Society Fellow

An Applied Mathematician from the University of St Andrews has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society - a highly prestigious honour which represents the greatest academic recognition for a scientist in the United Kingdom.

Date
12 May 2002
Category
University news

Child vs Chimp

A primate expert has developed an innovative technique which is providing the first clear evidence that children and chimpanzees learn the traditions of the community they live in by similar processes of imitation.

Date
4 June 2000
Category
Research

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