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The Guardian


A study commissioned by the Metropolitan police from South Bank 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ into the relationship between drugs and crime has cast doubt on 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Office policy and led senior officers to question the effectiveness of their strategies.

Philip Steadman, of 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ College London, has proved that the Dutch master, Johannes Vermeer, used a camera obscura to trace the scenes he painted.

Financial Times

Advances in the treatment of testicular cancer could assist doctors in finding cures for other types of tumours, according to researchers at 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ College London.

Miscellany

A massive dinosaur, Paralititan stromeri , believed to be the second biggest on record, has been unearthed at a "lost" valley in the Sahara desert by palaeontologists who retraced the footsteps of a pre-war expedition by an aristocratic German explorer. ( Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Times )

Men who eat oily fish twice a week halve their risk of developing prostate cancer and greatly reduce their risk of dying from it, according to research from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. ( Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph )

A team of scientists from Harvard 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ has finally revealed the key to human longevity after a study by some of the finest minds in psychiatry for thousands of laboratory hours over more than 60 years: there is no secret. ( Independent, Daily Mail )

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