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How blue eyes and red hair became part of Britain's genetic story (opens the original)
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As a student and teacher of science I learned about and taught basic genetics. You may remember the story of Mendel and his pea plants or predicting the colour of a rat’s coat of hair. A popular (but risky) lesson on the inheritance of eye colour in humans and how two parents with brown eyes could have a child with blue eyes, which happens if both parents have a recessive blue gene. But have you ever wondered how certain traits started? It’s striking how often the traits we think of as ‘ordinary
Leap years, leap seconds and why our planet is a terrible timekeeper (opens the original)
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One of my all-time favourite quotes comes from the sci-fi comedy novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. It’s spoken by the character Ford Prefect just before the Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. He says, “time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” Adams is basically mocking grand philosophical statements about the nature of time by applying them to something entirely mundane and human like lunch. Time, for most of us, feels constant. The second hand s
Stone Age cave art offers new clues to Ireland's earliest inhabitants (opens the original)
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There’s an old joke in Wales that says the Irish are just the Welsh that could swim. As it happens, there is now some new evidence that potentially confirms that the ancient stone age inhabitants of Ireland were indeed from what is now Pembrokeshire in Wales. It’s also thought that they didn’t swim to Ireland as there may well have been a land bridge. Researchers working on what has been christened the Lost Land Bridge Project have found rock art in eight caves in south-west Ireland, dated to at
'September in Brighton has always felt like a kind of unofficial new year' (opens the original)
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For me, September in Brighton has always felt like a kind of unofficial new year. It’s a fresh start for the city and there’s a turnover of people. The crowds thin on the promenade and there are fewer visible tourists. Part of this is due to the academic calendar. In university cities, the rhythm of life is set not by the seasons but by the return of students. They don’t arrive all at once. Some trickle in at the start of September and you begin to notice them, wandering through city with parent
'Climate change is not an abstract force acting somewhere far away' (opens the original)
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Our coastline is always changing, it may be roughly the same year after year but there are subtle, and not so subtle, changes that happen over time. Our coast is shaped by tides, storms and on our immediate coastline, there is the long, slow movement of shingle drifting eastwards along the shore. But in the past two decades that natural shift has accelerated into something more unsettling. The coastline is no longer simply shifting, it’s being re-engineered by a climate that is warming faster th
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