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An Uber for apartments could solve some common housing problems

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imageBringing together buyers and sellers of apartments could result in better apartment pricing and design.CucombreLibre/Flickr, CC BY

Speculative property developers, criticised for building dog boxes and the slums of tomorrow, are generally hated by urban planners and the public alike. But the doors of state governments are seemingly always open to...

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Art and science combine to reveal the inner workings of our DNA

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imageThe enzyme, DNA methyltransferase (DNMT), in action in the animation, Tagging DNA.Kate Patterson, CC BY-ND

How can cells that contain the same DNA end up so different from each other? That is not only a difficult question for science to answer, but also a challenging one to represent visually.

It is also the question I posed at the start of my...

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