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Stuart West & colleagues at Nottingham University have shown that bacteria communicate because this allows them to coordinate cooperative behaviours a high density.

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Congratulations to Simon Hay who has been awarded the Royal Geographical Society Back Award 2012 for research contributing to public health policy.

 

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A new X-ray analysis of the structure of feathers from 230 bird species, led by Vinod Saranathan of Oxford University’s Department of Zoology, has revealed the nanostructures behind certain colours of feather, structures that could inspire new photonic devices.

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A study published in PNAS by Robert Belshaw, Gkikas Magiorkinis and Aris Katzourakis has shown how endogenous retroviruses became superspreaders within the genomes of humans and other mammals.

Union Medal of the British Ornithologists' Union

Andy Gosler has been awarded the Union Medal of the British Ornithologists' Union for 'Services to Ornithology'.