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Scientists at the University of Birmingham have found that survivors of childhood cancers are four times more likely than the general population to develop a new cancer. The results are published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The researchers, funded by Cancer Research UK, followed the health of over 18,000 childhood cancer survivors** for an average of 25 years.

Labor and the Coalition need to recognise that the Greens are part of political reality, writes Norman Abjorensen These are unusual political times.

A new book exploring people's experience and tensions of dealing with civilizations and cultures different from their own is now available in mainland Europe after its initial release by Transaction Publishers in the USA in February.

Columbia tree-ring scientists journey to a remote forest in Cambodia to search for clues about the demise of a lost civilization.

A team of archaeologists from the University of Birmingham are set to share their work at the largest open area excavation to be undertaken at the medieval village of Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, with a public open day offering guided tours of the site.

A new discovery book published by a National Lottery funded initiative coordinated in the West Midlands by the University of Birmingham's School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences is unearthing the plants and local history of Brierley Hill through gardener's eyes.

AUSTIN, Texas — Mammals first evolved their characteristic large brains to enable a stronger sense of smell Carnegie Museum of Natural History and St. Mary's University in San Antonio.

Summer 2011 sees the completion of a major project in medieval history at King's, the Henry III Fine Rolls.

Historians from the University of Glasgow have found evidence to show that, as far as the English were concerned, Scots patriot and hero William Wallace aspired to be King of Scotland. A newly discovered English source, which also marks the earliest record of Wallace's gruesome execution, confirms outright what historians had only suspected before: the reason that Edward I dealt so harshly with Wallace was that he viewed him as a pretender to the Scottish crown.

CHAMPAIGN, lll. Researchers tracking the spread of Toxoplasma gondii - a parasite that reproduces only in cats but sickens and kills many other animals - have found infected wildlife throughout a 1,500-acre (600-hectare) natural area in central Illinois. The researchers also found dozens of free-ranging cats in the area, the Robert Allerton Park, near Monticello, Ill.

PA151/11 A new chair at The University of Nottingham will make it one of the UK's leading centres for the study of Judaism — thanks to the generosity of donors.

Science Cath Harris | 06 May 11 Darren Mann likes nothing better than getting his hands dirty. He's at his happiest in the field with magnifying glass and notebook, delving into a fresh pile of poo.

Media Note: High-res photos of "Life is Struggle" can be accessed at http://art.umn.edu/press.

PA 147/11 A Time Team Special tonight on Channel 4 will put the excavation of the Roman town of Caistor St Edmund — a major archaeological dig being led by The University of Nottingham — at the heart of the programme's search for Boudica's Lost Tribe.

Scientists at King's have pioneered a new method of identifying early in pregnancy which healthy first-time mothers are at risk of developing pre-eclampsia, a potentially life threatening condition that complicates one in 20 first pregnancies. Pre-eclampsia is a hypertensive condition that can cause mothers to become very unwell with kidney or liver damage, blood clotting problems and seizures.

A new research project from The Australian National University will reveal for the first time the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have played in Australian war and peacekeeping.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—University of Michigan faculty are available to discuss the implications of the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. forces nearly a decade after orchestrating terror attacks on the United States.

Top Stories People Press Clips @Work What's Happening Faculty Authors Historian Wins 2011 Guggenheim Inga Kiderra | May 2, 2011 Eric Van Young, professor of history at UC San Diego and a specialist in the history of colonial Mexico, has won a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011-12.

PA145/11 Fifty years after the CIA was thrown into the public spotlight by its attempt to remove the Castro regime in Cuba in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, some of the world's leading experts

Top Stories People Press Clips @Work What's Happening Faculty Authors UC San Diego's V.S. Ramachandran Named One of TIME 100 Inga Kiderra | April 25, 2011 President Barack Obama, Secreta

Kenneth Jackson talks about the new edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City . It's rare to see the words "best-seller" and "encyclopedia" in the same sentence, especially in the Internet age, which has rendered print reference books all but obsolete.

Oxford University has taken its groundbreaking Great War Archive into Europe, after forming an alliance with the German National Library and Europe's digital archive Europeana to digitise more family papers and memorabilia from the First World War. The Great War Archive brought together 6,500 images of items submitted to Oxford University by members of the public in 2008.

The Square at the University of Glasgow will be turned into an archaeological dig on Wednesday 20 April as part of an event celebrating 50 years of the discipline.

University Park, Pa. The power that the Israeli media once used to create a sense of community is increasingly separating groups, according to a Penn State Altoona political scientist. A study of Israeli newspapers indicates that both religious and secular newspapers are using their ability to select and present information to divide groups of Israeli citizens, said Matt Evans, assistant professor, political science.

Art 14 Apr 11 It is seen by many as an unofficial British national anthem - but an Oxford University academic believes she has discovered that Rule Britannia was heavily influenced by Greek literature.