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• Deficit dooms Swedish gene institute - Premium content

  Researchers face cutbacks and lay-offs.

  24 June 2009

• Early man becomes early ape - Premium content

  Author withdraws claim that ancient jawbone is human ancestor.

  17 June 2009

• Californian universities caught in budget hell - Premium content

  State-wide cash crisis shuts down building projects and recruitment plans.

  08 June 2009

• Elements reveal fossils' origins - Premium content

  Chemical fingerprint could foil poachers.

  20 May 2009

• Deep concerns - Premium content

  The United States' flagship underground laboratory is running into challenges over its relations with local Native Americans. Rex Dalton reports.

  13 May 2009

• 'Hobbit' was a dwarf with large feet - Premium content

  Studies suggest Flores man was a distinct species.

  06 May 2009

• University fined after researcher's death - Premium content

  Safety failures to be addressed at University of California, Los Angeles.

  06 May 2009

• Age-defying dinosaur collagen - Premium content

  Hadrosaur, dead 80 million years, yields oldest protein yet sequenced.

  30 April 2009

• Indian fossil find resolves fraud accusations - Premium content

  Early example of multicellular life discovered in Vindhyan hills.

  22 April 2009

• Bomb spurs research rally - Premium content

  Neuroscientist David Jentsch talks about the firebombing that led him to set up a demonstration in support of animal research.

  15 April 2009

• Argentina: The come back - Premium content

  Argentina's government has pledged to reverse a decades-long scientific brain drain. Rex Dalton reports.

  26 November 2008

• Palaeontology: School of rock - Premium content

  Native Americans want to claim fossil resources found on their lands. Rex Dalton looks at how tribes and palaeontologists are working together to avoid bitter ownership disputes.

  15 October 2008

• Palaeontology: The new mother lode - Premium content

  Palaeontologists in Argentina are exploring a trove of fossils that is rewriting evolutionary history. Rex Dalton reports.

  10 September 2008

• Entomology: Battlefield insectica - Premium content

  Entomologists are briefing the military on how to protect troops from the scourge of the desert: sandflies. Rex Dalton reports.

  02 July 2008

• Archaeology: Bones, isles and videotape - Premium content

  Old human remains found on the Pacific islands of Palau are caught in the crossfire between entertainment and science. Rex Dalton reports.

  16 April 2008

• Business: Stepping out - Premium content

  A surprisingly large number of university-inspired patents may be going to industry instead. Rex Dalton reports.

  12 March 2008

• Archaeology: Facing up to the past - Premium content

  New York University is trying to establish a world-class archaeological institute #20; with funds from a philanthropist who has been linked to looted artefacts. Rex Dalton reports.

  05 March 2008

• Archaeology: Pieces of the puzzle - Premium content

  After decades of war, looting and destruction, Afghanistan's archaeologists are scrambling to restore their country's cultural heritage. Rex Dalton visited Kabul to see how they are faring.

  12 December 2007

• Geology: Mine games

  Under the rubble of war-torn Afghanistan lie natural resources worth billions. Rex Dalton reports from Kabul on the scientists risking their lives to see them developed for the good of the country.

  22 October 2007