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BBC News
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A Dutch council has condemned a campaign of harassment by animal rights protesters which forced a developer to withdraw from a science park project.
Developer Van der Looy has told Venray town council it is pulling out of the Sciencelink scheme. Buildi..
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BBC News
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The UK government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, is to call for a rethink on GM crops in his farewell speech before leaving his post.
He will be making his comments to a group of senior scientists at the Foundation for Science and Technolo..
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Slate
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Say goodbye to another curse of nature. Menstruation just became optional.
We've been tampering with periods for years. But on Tuesday, we made it official. The Food and Drug Administration approved Lybrel, the first birth-control pill explicitly desig..
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BBC News
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A new book reveals how recent research has uncovered a goldmine of information about the history of human habitation in Britain.
Here, Homo britannicus author Chris Stringer describes how efforts to search for evidence of early Britons were hampered by..
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BBC News
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Kryptonite is no longer just the stuff of fiction feared by caped superheroes.
A new mineral matching its unique chemistry - as described in the film Superman Returns - has been identified in a mine in Serbia.
According to movie and comic-book story..
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BusinessWeek
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FIRST's Robotics Competition helps inspire middle and high school students to pursue careers in math and science
It's 6 p.m. on a chilly February night in New York City, and the Harlem Knights are racing to meet a deadline. The Knights are a group of a..
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Space.com
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You, dear reader, are one in a thousand. The fact that you’re confronting this column on a web site devoted to space science and astronomy makes you roughly as rare as technetium. Despite the fact that astronomy is one of the two most popular scienc..
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USA Today
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Brian Emmett's childhood fantasy came true when he won a free trip to outer space. He was crushed when he had to cancel his reservation because of Uncle Sam...
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Guardian Unlimited
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A bridge next to Kevin Eggan's laboratory overlooks one of the most concentrated square miles of scientific fire power in the world: North Yard, the science hub of Harvard. The bridge, a recent construction in glass and steel, was intended to facilitate..
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New York Times
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“This is where we blow stuff up.” Jamie Hyneman — who, to be honest, did not actually use the word “stuff” — stood in front of a two-story, blast-resistant ruin of a building at the back of the former Alameda Point Naval Air Station...
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BBC News
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A book about global warming has won this year's Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
Mark Lynas' Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet has already been turned into a TV programme and is now almost certain to experience a jump in sales...
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BBC News
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The body overseeing UK astronomy and physics is to commission an independent review of its operations.
The probe into the effectiveness of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) follows widespread concern over the status of its budget...
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BBC News
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The UK has been left looking like an "unreliable" and "incompetent" partner for international science, according to a committee of MPs.
It is one of the conclusions in a report looking into handling of the "funding crisis" in physics research.
The s..
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MSNBC
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Seventy times a year, school groups and others gather in an auditorium to talk with surgeons as they perform operations on the other end of a live video link.
Bobbi Bremen, who teaches high school science in Livingston, N.J., has taken her anatomy and..
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BBC News
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A world class science project that has already received �25m of public funding may be pulled before it has provided any experimental results.
The Alice project at the Daresbury labs in Cheshire is the first particle accelerator of its kind in Europe...
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BBC News
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Physicists and astronomers have three weeks to make the case for a number of high-profile projects at risk of being cut from the UK's science portfolio.
The lists of facilities and experiments include spacecraft, telescopes and hardware for particle ac..
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BBC News
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The field of science dedicated to understanding "space weather" - which can pose hazards to satellites and aircraft - may be wiped out in the UK.
That is the verdict of experts responding to UK physics and astronomy cuts made as administrators seek to..
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BBC News
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Ministers want Britain's top IT and science companies to encourage "career switchers" to go into teaching.
Ministers want professional scientists, mathematicians, information technology experts and engineers to help fill the skills gaps in classrooms...
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SF Gate
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NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View has been assigned to create the nation's first Lunar Science Institute, linking researchers around the country to study every aspect of the moon's geology, history and chemistry as the space agency prepares for..
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BBC News
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Scientific research into the seas is disorganised and under funded despite its importance to human survival, MPs have warned.
Members of the Science and Technology Select Committee say the UK has the potential to be at the forefront of marine science...
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