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Stubborn sparrows may have sung the same songs for hundreds of years
By preserving songs for centuries, American swamp sparrows show a cultural stability previously only seen in humans.
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Music to your ears
Podcast: Retiring legends in music and glass, and misdiagnosing diabetes
In this edition: Looking back on the careers of Imperial’s music director and scientific glassblower, and learning how diabetes can be misdiagnosed.
Bird biodiversity
Sister species of birds reveal clues to how biodiversity evolves
Extensive new datasets about the world’s birds are helping to solve the riddle of how life on Earth diversified.
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Puddle dipping
Collecting bacterial communities from puddles helps solve ecosystem riddles
Researchers have used puddle ecosystems to start to unravel the roles different bacteria play in complex communities.
Ground-breaking research
Ground broken on upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider
The international particle accelerator, which discovered the Higgs boson in 2012, is getting some serious upgrades in its hunt for new physics.
Beyond the red limit
New type of photosynthesis discovered
The discovery changes our understanding of the basic mechanism of photosynthesis and should rewrite the textbooks.
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Star burst
Scientists spot erupting jets of material as black hole tears a star apart
Astronomers have for the first time directly imaged a fast-moving jet of material ejected as a supermassive black hole consumed a star.
Crater creations
'Surprisingly fast' recovery of life at dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site
Within 30,000 years of impact, Mexico’s Chicxulub crater fostered a thriving ecosystem - a much faster recovery than many sites around the world.
Creative Roots
White City children explore urban ecosystems with Imperial
School pupils discovered the flora and fauna of White City as part of an outreach programme to help them to better understand their local environment.
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Quantum universe
“The universe is incredibly simple” says renowned physicist at annual lecture
Professor Neil Turok, an Imperial alum, described the quantum beginnings of the universe in the annual Peter Lindsay memorial lecture.
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