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The online news app Flipboard is named best in show at the first Appys – an awards ceremony for mobile device software.

Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora virtuoso in a family renown for its mastery of the traditional West African instrument.

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Just why pears are prone to rot faster than apples after they are picked can now be explained by scientists.
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The poor breeding of Scotland’s seabirds is causing “serious concern”, according to RSPB Scotland.
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Russian cosmonauts complete a spacewalk to remove an explosive bolt from a Soyuz capsule attached to the International Space Station.
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A third of the world’s reef-building coral species are facing extinction, the first global assessment shows.
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A new solar technology could increase the power generated by solar panels tenfold, a team of scientists show.
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Twenty Russian scientists are to be taken off their ice camp in the Arctic because the melt has set in sooner than expected.
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Humans are using too much and nature is suffering
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Marine biologists plan to tie mini computers to jellyfish to track them off the coasts of north and west Wales.
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Space officials set a date of 2018 for launching an unmanned mission to return samples of Martian soil to Earth.
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As it takes over the EU’s rotating presidency, France says it wants to give European space policy a new political direction.
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One in four secondary schools in England does not have any specialist physics teachers, says a survey.
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The procurement process is opened to construct Europe’s much-delayed Galileo satellite-navigation system.
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Two loggerhead turtles are flown to Gran Canaria and returned to the wild after washing up on UK shores.
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Campaigners from many of the 15 sites in England earmarked for “eco-towns” are protesting outside Parliament.
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Thousands of wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of a

Climate change has resulted in many plant species moving an average of 29 metres uphill every decade, a study finds.
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The problem of keeping track of thousands of near-identical penguins has been solved, scientists report.
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Bumblebees may be showing an increasingly common behaviour of feeding on secretions from aphids.
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Martian soil appears to contain sufficient nutrients to support life – or, at least, asparagus – Nasa scientists believe.
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Scientists identify a 365-million-year-old fossil that helps explain the sequence of events that took early creatures onto land.
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A pioneering research organisation that has produced 13 Nobel Prize winners gets the go-ahead for a new

Centuries of knowledge needed to survive in the world’s drylands are being sacrificed in the name of progress.
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A pioneering research organisation that has produced 13 Nobel Prize winners gets the go-ahead for a new

A certificate scheme that shows which firms have made genuine carbon cuts is launched by the UK’s Carbon Trust.
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Sunbathing tree frogs may hold the key to understanding how a deadly fungus is wiping out amphibians around the world.
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Nasa’s Phoenix spacecraft unearths evidence of ice in the soil around its landing site on Mars.
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Tools thought to have belonged to Neanderthals have been dug up at an archaeological site called Beedings in West Sussex.
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The “Jules Verne” freighter lifts the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by a record distance.
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Our planet will not be sucked into a black hole made in a new European physics facility, a report concludes.
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Despite recent criticisms, the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism is delivering the goods.
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The Jason-2 satellite is launched on a mission to measure the shape of the world’s oceans and track sea level rise.
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A rare meteorite that could hold clues to the Solar System’s birth has been bought by the Natural History Museum.
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British homeowners may face higher bills as part of a “green revolution” to reduce fossil fuel reliance.
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Mark Lynas’ book on global warming wins this year’s Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
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Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland’s “subsistence” whalehunt is too commercially motivated.
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Some of the first farmers probably used green beads to protect themselves and their crops, a study suggests.
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A cannon and other key artefacts are raised from an Elizabethan ship wreck off the coast of the Channel Islands.
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The US space shuttle Discovery lands in Florida despite the earlier loss of a rudder clip.
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Conservative leader David Cameron insists he will not be diverted from his environmental agenda by the economic downturn.
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UK scientist Dr Tom Pike describes the moment the Phoenix lander obtained its first scoop of Martian soil for analysis.
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The Met Office says it is now able to provide more precise forecasts of where extreme rainfall will occur.
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Astronomers identify a trio of so-called “super-Earths” – rocky worlds slightly larger than our planet.
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Progress towards developing a global strategy to cut emissions is too slow, say environmental campaigners.
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Astronomy’s official naming organisation says objects like the former ninth planet should be known as “plutoids”
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An advanced satellite that will improve substantially the ability of UK military forces to communicate around the globe is launched into space.
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A human egg has been filmed, in close-up, emerging from the ovary – the first time such an event has been captured.
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The proposed Severn Barrage is not the best option financially or environmentally, a report says.
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How the Environment Agency used new tactics to capture the men behind ‘industrial scale’ fly-tipping.
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A supercomputer built with components designed for the Sony PlayStation 3 sets a new computing milestone.
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The first private manned mission to the International Space Station will go ahead in 2011.
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A Nasa space telescope launches on a mission to explore the Universe with “gamma-ray glasses”.
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The world’s most advanced commercially available bionic hand has won the UK’s top engineering award.
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A new genetic family tree of UK birds may help predict which ones are likely to see population declines in future.
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The Phoenix lander tries different ways of making clumpy Martian soil samples enter its onboard lab ovens.
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Some Mediterranean shark populations have fallen by 99% over the last two centuries, a study shows.
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Archaeologists in Rihab, Jordan, say they have discovered a cave that could be the world’s oldest Christian church.
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A human egg has been filmed, in close-up, emerging from the ovary – the first time such an event has been captured.
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A network of tiny pipes of water could be used to cool next-generation PC chips, IBM researchers say.
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Nasa scientists have said they could be on the verge of a breakthrough in their efforts to forecast earthquakes.
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Bacteria may hold the key to halting a fungal disease which is devastating amphibian populations worldwide.
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A beaver found dead on a beach in the Highlands ingested a large quantity of sea water, police say.
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Our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang, say physicists.
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The Phoenix lander’s first dig into the Martian soil for scientific study has been delayed by a glitch on a communications satellite.
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Scientists test the missile technology they hope will drive instruments into the surface of the Moon.
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Teenagers may need a booster dose of meningitis C vaccine, say researchers who found immunity can fall.
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Loss of forests and other natural systems could halve living standards for the world’s poor, a major report says.
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The third Skynet military satellite – part of Britain’s single biggest space project – is held on the pad because of a fault on its rocket.
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A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 hits southern Iceland, 50km (30 miles) from the capital, Reykjavik.
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An apparent cooling period in the mid-20th Century was due to different measurement methods, scientists say.
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The fastest spinning natural object in the Solar System is discovered by a British amateur astronomer.
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Expanding nuclear power capacity would help meet demands caused by electric cars, a leading scientist says.
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Nasa’s Mars lander Phoenix has unstowed its robotic arm – one of the key tools in its mission.
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Monkeys are taught to control robotic limbs using only their thoughts, Nature journal reports.
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Stonehenge served as a burial ground for much longer than had previously been believed, new research suggests.
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Italy says it is to restart its nuclear energy programme, 20 years after it was scrapped following Chernobyl.
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Mysterious bands of shadow during an eclipse might be produced by sound pulses, a theory suggests.
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Rising levels of the greenhouse gas methane could be caused by changes in wetlands, say scientists.
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Astronomers capture and record the first moments when a massive star blows itself apart.
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More than half of the world’s ocean-going sharks are at risk of extinction, says the world’s official conservation agency.
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Investigations begin into claims that meat from Japan’s whaling programme is being stolen with official knowledge.
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Researchers unveil a motorcycle simulator to study rider behaviour and improve road safety.
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Bathing water at the UK’s beaches is more polluted since last year’s stormy summer, a study shows.
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Dinosaur footprints made millions of years ago in what is now Yemen are the first found in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are not producing ‘green’ enough consoles, says Greenpeace.
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Tropical storms will become less frequent as the world warms, a new US study suggests.
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Vulcan, the world’s most powerful laser, heats matter to a truly sweltering 10 million Celsius.
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Climate change is “amplifying” the threats facing the world’s bird species, a key study concludes.
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The EU announces plans to reform its hugely expensive rural payments system, the Common Agricultural Policy.
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A fragment of DNA from the extinct Tasmanian tiger is put into a mouse to study how the genetic material works.
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Nations should avoid biofuel crops that have a high risk of becoming an invasive species, a report warns.
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Chemotherapy does not help people with asbestos-related cancer, according to UK researchers.
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A new study explains how the tiny ancestors of humans, apes and monkeys may have taken to the trees.
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Small-scale biomass power plants can have bigger enviro-impacts than other renewables, a study says.
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It is claimed tighter rules on pesticide use in Europe could lead to reduced yields and increases in food costs.
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Plans to tackle use of plastic bags are a diversion from the real environmental issues, a government adviser says.
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