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Huge European telecoms satellite set for launch
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Find out if you have a sensitive tongue
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Scientists have found further evidence that dolphins call each other by "name". Research has revealed that the marine mammals use a unique whistle to identify each other.
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People should eat breakfast in order to look after their hearts, according to researchers in the US.
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.. and other ideas to prevent the world from running out of food
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Dolphins call each other by name using unique signature whistles, a study suggests.
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Scientists are able to identify individual wild wolves by just their howls with 100% accuracy, a study shows.
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Why has global warming apparently slowed to a standstill?
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Seeds collected from Northern Italy are being brought back to the UK and stored as an insurance policy against the potentially devastating impact of climate change.
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As our heatwave goes bang find out more about how these summer thunderstorms are formed.
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An Imperial College London team discuss how we could put a human on Mars
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Dr Martin Archer and Simon Foster of Imperial College London step aboard a virtual spacecraft.
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Prof Mark Sephton, a geologist at Imperial College London, explains why humans could achieve more than robots on the surface of the Red Planet.
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A manatee celebrated his 65th birthday at the South Florida museum. According to museum officials, he could be the oldest manatee on record.
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Actor: 'Binge eating scarred my liver'
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The prospect of reversing blindness has made a significant leap, according to scientists in London.
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Scientists are able to identify individual wild wolves by just their howls with 100% accuracy, a study shows.
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Deforestation in one of the world's largest rainforests, the Congo Basin in Africa, has slowed, a study suggests.
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Has the EU fallen for Congo's logging scam?
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Two ocean-going canoes have returned to New Zealand after an epic voyage a new generation of Polynesian navigators using traditional craft.
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US fighter jets dropped inert bombs on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's coast during a training exercise that went wrong, it has emerged.
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Two US fighter jets dropped unarmed bombs on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia's coast during a training exercise that went wrong, it has emerged.
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What happens to chimpanzees when medical research stops?
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Where are all the wasps?
20 Jul 2013 2:04:29
Where have all the wasps gone this summer?
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Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and cell biologist Sir Paul Nurse talks to Matthew Stadlen about why science excites him, how he found out about winning the Nobel through a voicemail message, discovering his 'sister' was really his mother - and coming face to face with death.
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