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BBC News
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The world's most advanced, commercially available, bionic hand has clinched the UK's top engineering prize.
The i-LIMB, a prosthetic device with five individually powered digits, beat three other finalists to win this year's MacRobert award.
The tec..
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BBC News
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London's Kew Gardens has opened the world's first gallery dedicated to botanical art works - some of which have never been seen by the public.
The �3m attraction is exhibiting art from the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and from colle..
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BBC News
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The world's tiger population may have halved in the past quarter of a century, conservationists from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have warned.
The WWF told a conference in Stockholm there might be only 3,500 tigers left, and that one sub-species, the..
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BBC News
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A giant rodent five times the size of a common rat has been discovered in the mountainous jungles of New Guinea.
The 1.4kg Mallomys giant rat is one of two species of mammal thought to be new to science documented on an expedition to an area described..
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BBC News
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A lightweight solar-powered plane has smashed the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight.
UK defence firm Qinetiq, which built the Zephyr unmanned aerial vehicle, said it flew for 54 hours during tests.
The researchers believ..
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BBC News
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Many of the world's rare species of livestock face extinction unless conservation measures are taken now, a group of researchers has warned.
They said modern agricultural methods had overlooked the benefits of genetic traits that have evolved in breeds..
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Physorg
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Renowned British scientist Sir Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics and astronomy, predicted the world would end in 2060 in a 1704 letter that went on show in Jerusalem on Sunday.
A famed rationalist, who secured a royal exemption from the ordina..
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Daily Mail
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British scientists aim to deliver the world's first stem-cell treatment for blindness within five years, it was announced today.
A team of researchers and clinicians will develop the use of embryonic stem cells to repair damaged retinas.
Their targe..
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CNN
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The world faces increased hunger and water shortages in the poorest countries, massive floods and avalanches in Asia, and species extinction unless nations adapt to climate change and halt its progress, according to a report approved Friday by an internat..
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CNN
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While governments grapple with the politics of global warming, some of the world's greatest treasures already are being damaged and threatened with destruction.
Conservationists have drawn up priorities for action to salvage some of nature's wonders th..
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BBC News
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Exclusively breastfeeding until a baby is six-months old can significantly reduce the risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission, an African study says.
The South African researchers compared solely breastfed babies with those also given formula or solid..
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Science Daily
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Ornithologists across the world are celebrating with the news that a wetland bird that has eluded scientists ever since its discovery in India in 1867 has been refound. Twice.
The Large-billed Reed-warbler is the world’s least known bird. A single bi..
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Telegraph
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Attempts to save mankind by smashing asteroids as they head towards Earth may do more harm than good, scientists believe.
Rather than Hollywood's preferred option, engineers are trying to develop unmanned rockets that can land on space rocks and use th..
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New York Times
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Scientists from across the world gathered Monday to hammer out the final details of an authoritative report on climate change that is expected to project centuries of rising temperatures and sea levels unless there are curbs in emissions of carbon dioxide..
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Independent
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Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow...
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BBC News
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The US has called on the world's eight most industrialised nations to invest in a $10bn (�5bn) climate change fund.
The Climate Investment Funds, run by the World Bank, aims to help developing nations produce their own technology to mitigate the impa..
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BBC News
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Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own.
Discovering a planet with a similar mass to that of Earth is considered the "holy grail" of research into planets..
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BBC News
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Nearly 200 countries have agreed on measures to protect the world's most threatened wildlife.
At a Bonn conference they pledged to set up a deep-sea nature reserve and increase by tens of millions of hectares the area of land protected.
The Conventi..
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BBC News
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A French skydiver's attempt to break the world free fall record failed to get off the ground when his balloon lifted off without him on board.
Michel Fournier, 64, hoped to break four world records by free falling 40,000m (25 miles) from a balloon in S..
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BBC News
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More than half of the world's ocean-going sharks are at risk of extinction, a new analysis concludes.
Specialists with IUCN (formerly the World Conservation Union) found that 11 species are on the high-risk list, with five more showing signs of decline..
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