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Oct 7, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Downing Street

The olfactory sense is crucial for organisms, facilitating environmental recognition and inter-individual communication. Ithomiini butterflies exemplify this importance not only because they rely strongly on olfactory cues for both inter- and intra-sexual behaviours, but also because they show convergent evolution of specialized structures within the antennal lobe, called macro-glomerular complexes (MGCs).

Aug 5, 2024 | thiis.co.uk | Liane McIvor |Downing Street

Accessible housing provider Habinteg joined disability campaigners in Westminster last week to deliver a letter to Downing Street asking Prime Minister Keir Starmer to raise the accessibility standard for all new homes to the M4(2) accessible and adaptable building standard. The action was held to mark the two year anniversary of the previous government’s announcement of plans to require all new homes  to be accessible and adaptable.

Jun 19, 2024 | heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk | Downing Street

When: Wednesday 19 June, 2024: 14.00 – 17.00Thursday 20 June 2024: 9.30 – 17.45DescriptionThe 24th CHRC Annual Symposium invites papers to explore the idea of heritage expertise and how our understanding of heritage expertise shapes the associated skills and roles in heritage, and informs our heritage methodologies. The 24th CHRC Annual Symposium will explore a variety of questions about heritage expertise including the following:• How do we define heritage expertise?

May 30, 2024 | pubs.rsc.org | Ziwei Liu |Francis Crick |Downing Street

Manganese(ii) promotes prebiotically plausible non-enzymatic RNA ligation reactions† Using different prebiotically plausible activating reagents, the RNA ligation yield was significantly increased in the presence of Mn(II). The mechanism of the activation reaction has been investigated using 5′-AMP as an analogue. This article is Open Access Fetching data from CrossRef.

Apr 26, 2024 | blogs.lse.ac.uk | Downing Street

Professor Robert Wade discusses Brazil’s upcoming hosting of the G20 summit, outlining its challenges in navigating global governance dynamics, geopolitical tensions, and the quest for inclusivity and legitimacy within the forum. The president and government of Brazil host the next G20 summit, in Rio de Janeiro, November 18-19, 2024.