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Tasmanian devils evolve to resist deadly cancer  

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Tasmanian devils are evolving in response to a highly lethal and contagious form of cancer. A National Science Foundation-funded researcher and an international team of scientists discovered that two regions in the genomes of Australia's iconic marsupials are changing in response to the rapid spread of devil facial tumor disease (DFTD), a nearly 100 percent fatal and transmissible cancer first detected in 1996. The Washington University study suggests some Tasmanian devil populations are evolving genetic resistance to DFTD that could help the species avoid extinction. Additionally, the genomic data will support future medical research exploring how animals evolve rapidly in response to cancer and other pathogens.

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POLL: Most Americans Want Congress To Make Zika Funding A High Priority  

That's what 76 percent said in a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey. Half the respondents also said they'd be uncomfortable traveling to places in Florida where mosquitoes are spreading Zika.

 
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Shrinking Violets by Joe Moran review how to understand shyness  

Is being shy a boon or a burden? Should it be fought against? This sparkling cultural history ranges from Jane Austen to Silicon Valley

Joe Moran, like many of us, is shy. He is hopeless at small talk and feels he “should probably wear a badge that says: ‘Please do not expect sparkling conversation'”. Like most shy people, he has a dread of being boring. Thankfully Shrinking Violets, his “field guide” to shyness, exhibits all the sparkle and fluency on the page he might lack when chatting to strangers. Though he touches on his own experience, it's not a memoir, full of shaming revelations (of course it isn't): Moran says he prefers to hide “behind the human shield of people more interestingly and idiosyncratically shy than me”.

So he investigates the fifth Duke of Portland (1800-1879), who was so shy he communicated by posting notes into letter boxes inside his house, and asked the workers on his Welbeck Estate “to pass him as if he were a tree”. The duke is notable for spending a chunk of his vast fortune excavating grand, illuminated tunnels beneath his land so that when taking a walk he would never risk a meeting.

In the 80s, cardigan-wearing indie kids embraced the idea of being shy "as a personal and political philosophy"

As Hilary Mantel has said, the condition began to be regarded as "a pathology, not just an inconvenient character trait"

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Every breath we take  
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Every breath we take  
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Gentle giants: on the frontline of the battle to save Africa's elephants  

Across Africa, elephant poaching is happening on an industrial scale. Though elephant killing is down in Kenya and conservationists are hopeful, the battle to save the largest animals on the Earth is far from being won

In the Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya, when the fierce heat of the sun has softened into a gentle evening glow, David Daballen and I climb into a jeep to find some elephants.

As we drive through the savannah, Daballen, a conservationist at Save the Elephants, points out family groups and individuals within them. “These are the Butterflies, this group is Storms, here are the Spices,” he says. We have been looking out for Cinnamon, the Spices' matriarch, and suddenly there she is: around 50 years old, huge and tuskless, having been born without any precious ivory. Close to her is Habiba, who was orphaned along with seven siblings when poachers killed their mother in 2011. The orphans were adopted by Cinnamon and the rest of the Spices.

They are a crucial part of the ecosystem, and an iconic species. Can you imagine them no longer existing?

Related: Elephants on the path to extinction - the facts

The rangers could hear the bull making death sounds a loud rumble

It's not like the battle has been won the threat is still very real but it's not on the scale of a few years ago

Elephants have a humbling effect on humans; they make us realise that perhaps we are not the masters of the universe

Related: Why the Guardian is spending a year reporting on the plight of elephants

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First test of oral rabies vaccine brings hope to the world's rarest canid  
A new study reports on field trials of the oral vaccine SAG2 in Ethiopian wolves, Africa's most threatened carnivore and the world's rarest canid. The trials are the first ever conducted in wild populations of an endangered carnivore.  
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In These Video Games, You Care for Badger Babies and Wolf Pups  
Swedish video game studio Might and Delight is making the fur fly.  
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Bird bugs shed new light on malaria infection  
A study into bird malaria could provide important clues about the causes of parasite co-infections in animals, including people, report investigators. They found that not only the bird's habitat but also the interactions between parasites can impact a bird's risk of malaria infection.  
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RC-135 Taxiing At RAF Mildenhall  

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August Sun over the Thames  

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Gorgeous August sunset over the Thames River in London, Ontario.

 
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New London Pride  

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Boardwalk - New London Pride  

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Sunset Beach - New London Pride  

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