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Steve Connor

Steve Connor is the Science Editor of The Independent and i. 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; four times highly 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 investigations into the tobacco industry. 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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Nanotechnology cancer treatment tested with 'astounding' results

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Carbon dioxide levels 'exploded last year to reach record highs'

Simple tools 'allowed humans to become first intelligent species'

Scientist who awarded Crispr patents excluded from science prize

Investigation shows former nurses offering to inject botox illegally

Global warming 'prompts farmers to plant fewer crops'

Investigation shows former nurses offering to inject botox illegally

Human genome study finds many genes have no effect on human health

Study claiming most psychologists' research is untrue 'is biased'

High-fat diets 'increase risk of tumours forming in the gut'

Going grey is genetic, scientists say

Scientists confirm link between Zika virus and Guillain-Barré syndrome

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Massive volcanic eruption changed the face of Mars, study finds

UK woman becomes one of the first to receive tumour-destroying vaccine

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Infertile men ‘could grow new sperm from skin cells’

Aboriginal Australians 'genetically isolated for 50,000 years'

Low doses of chemotherapy 'may control cancer more effectively'

Scientists develop faster way of pulling water vapour out of the air

‘Vaginal seeding’ puts health of newborn babies at risk, doctors warn

Glyptodonts were related to present-day armadillos, scientists say

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IVF use 'could be storing up health problems'

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Partial deafness linked to dementia, scientists say

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Test tube 'mini brains' could replace vivisection for drug development

'Neurostatin' drug could prevent onset of Alzheimer's, scientists say

Rogue IVF clinics 'likely to be first to create GM babies'

Mental health issues 'could have origins in Neanderthal interbreeding'

Smoking e-cigarettes when pregnant 'puts unborn babies at risk'

Gravitational waves discovery proves Einstein's theory of relativity

Scientists announce that they have seen ripples in spacetime

Why belief in a vengeful god may have helped the rise of civilisation

Cat parasite 'could affect human behaviour when it infects people'

Cancer treatment trials using patient’s cells 'to begin within a year'

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Licence to genetically modify human embryos 'could revolutionise IVF'

Lizard-like reptile takes 38 years to lay an egg

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African sleeping sickness parasite 'has not had sex in 10,000 years'

Pregnant women warned to stay away from Olympics over Zika virus fears

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Astronomer’s daughter called for return to the forbidding planet

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