Steve Connor
Steve Connor is the Science Editor of The Independent. He has won many awards for his journalism, including five-times winner of the prestigious British science writers’ award; the David Perlman Award of the American Geophysical Union; twice commended as specialist journalist of the year in the UK Press Awards; UK health journalist of the year and a special merit award of the European School of Oncology for his investigative journalism. He has a degree in zoology from the University of Oxford and has a special interest in genetics and medical science, human evolution and origins, climate change and the environment.
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Fewer resources, greater stress, more disasters: Climate change linked to violence among people and societies
01 August 2013 07:00 PM
Review of 61 accounts concludes that personal disputes and wider civil conflicts increase significantly with weather changes
Problems with your partner's sleep patterns? How the night owl and early bird can get into sync
01 August 2013 05:00 PM
Go camping for a week together without flashlights, iPads or mobile phones
Cancer treatment breakthrough? Scientists reveal hope for protecting patients from radiotherapy and chemotherapy
31 July 2013 05:58 PM
Drugs shield sensitive gastrointestinal tract from toxic effects
Scientists grow an ear from living tissue
31 July 2013 12:00 AM
The organs are made in the laboratory in the hope of using them to replace the damaged or missing body parts of patients
The hot weather’s sting in the tail: Jellyfish numbers boom after warm July
30 July 2013 01:38 PM
Conservationists ask people to report sightings but warn beach-goers not to get too close to some species
Humans evolved monogamous relationships to stop men killing rivals' babies, says study
29 July 2013 08:00 PM
Only about 3 per cent of mammal species are monogamous and it has been a puzzle as to why it evolved in some monkeys and apes but not others
Grizzly Bears resurgent in Yellowstone National Park after return of wolves
29 July 2013 05:21 PM
The wolves have controlled the number of elk, which were eating all-important berries
Special report: 'In vitro' beef - it's the meat of the future
28 July 2013 12:00 AM
Asked the cost of a regular beefburger, you might guess around £3... with fries. But, next week, a select group will be fed a £250,000 patty. What's the difference? This one was grown in a laboratory – from a cow's stem cells
Is it Inception? Total Recall? No, science fact: False implanted in mice brains
25 July 2013 07:18 PM
Scientists manipulate brains of mice to make them think fake event really occurred
Methane gas can dramatically change the global climate
24 July 2013 05:34 PM
There are large uncertainties in the $60tn figure
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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