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4 Feb 2013: Sleeping sickness threatens millions of lives in sub-Saharan countries and, because it also affects cattle, is a major contributor to economic hardship.

5 Mar 2013: In addition, the World Economic Forum Global Risks report for 2013 states that, "Given the pace of space exploration, it is increasingly conceivable that we may discover the existence of alien

19 Dec 2013: Test data will soon start streaming back to a specially built computer at the IoA and powerful clusters at four other computing centres in Europe. ... For example, Gaia will provide the most precise test to date of Einstein’s theory of General

6 Feb 2013: Used in conjunction with other tools such as fluorescent indicators and molecular biological tools, the new technology will allow Tiffert and Lew to test their hypotheses about the pre-invasion stage

8 Apr 2013: Researchers have identified four genes newly associated with severe childhood obesity. They also found an increased burden of rare structural variations in

25 Oct 2013: I wanted to do this research to test my hypothesis that the Palladian style, so successful for country houses, was a dull subspecies of public architecture imposed on the country by

6 Aug 2013: tests to measure traits related to autism. ... On the tests of empathy and systemising (how strong an interest the person has in repeating patterns and predictable rule-based systems), girls with anorexia had a higher SQ, and a

24 Sep 2013: In England children now start formal schooling, and the formal teaching of literacy and numeracy at the age of four.  A recent letter signed by around 130

29 Jun 2013: I’m not yet sure how possible it is to think about luxury outside economic terms and frameworks.

20 Mar 2013: Anna Guinot Aguado, Maddie Mitchell and Connie Rich are among a unique group of PhD students. Each year Cambridge receives hundreds of applications for a small

29 Jul 2013: With this study we were able to test all these different hypotheses at once.

5 Aug 2013: Mothers who breastfeed their children may have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease, with longer periods of breastfeeding also lowering the overall

20 Nov 2013: Synaesthesia involves people experiencing a ‘mixing of the senses’, for example, seeing colours when they hear sounds, or reporting that musical notes evoke

20 Dec 2013: Initial tests of the combined treatment, carried out in mice by researchers at the University’s Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, resulted in almost complete elimination of cancer cells in one

16 Jan 2013: But for those who held on to their jobs, it was a relatively good decade as strong economic growth raised living standards. ... His research focuses on UK economic policy from the 1960s to the 1980s.

19 Mar 2013: The participants were each given either a video, or audio clip of a single sentence from the test set and asked to identify which of the six basic emotions it was

19 Feb 2013: With a background in a range of overlapping disciplines, he is currently professor of sociology at the London School of Economics.

15 Feb 2013: Through different tests using variations on food and visual access to the females during feeding, the researchers show that the males needed to actually see the females eating enough of and

15 Feb 2013: The theory predicting the behaviour of hydrogen atoms in magnetic fields this high has been around for just under a century, but until now, no-one was able to test it ... high has been around for just under a century, but until now, no-one was able to

6 Mar 2013: A small proportion of people protested and small proportion collaborated. But carefully targeted violence, propaganda and state's monopoly on economic and civic institutions persuaded the rest to go along. ... Applebaum, who is currently Philip Roman