Professor Les Baillie, of Cardiff University's school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, said nature in Wales was a resource.

BBC: Lichen in Wales could hold key to antibiotics resistance

The research was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and is published in the Nature journal.

BBC: Dundee researchers develop 'automatic drug designer'

Zanno is the director of the Paleontology and Geology Research Laboratory at the Nature Research Center of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

MSN: Dinosaur boom linked to rise of Rocky Mountains

Note to Readers: This blog post was co-written by Bruce Booth and Bijan Salehizadeh, who co-authored an article in the July 2011 issue of Nature Biotechnology, detailing the differences in returns between Life Sciences and Tech investing.

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That quarry's nature, reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is not a complete surprise.

ECONOMIST: A new, giant virus is confounding old certainties

The structure and functions of UNESCO are under discussion, including the nature of the actual and potential contribution of the UNESCO Social and Human Sciences (SHS) Sector.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Policy Briefs

Jay Labov of the National Academy of Sciences says his group is unhappy that the Kansas standards redefine the nature of science, allowing teachers and students to consider supernatural explanations of the universe.

NPR: Groups Fight New Science Standards in Kansas