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October 07, 2010
Environmentalists at the UN climate talks in the Chinese city of Tianjin have criticised China and other big developing nations for blocking a plan to cut emissions from shipping.
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October 06, 2010
Engineer Jem Stansfield looks at the volatile and explosive effects of nitroglycerine in slow motion.
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October 06, 2010
Entomology researcher Dr Ian Bedford talks about his son’s bizarre job - feeding baby spiders by sucking flies up using a rubber tube.
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October 05, 2010
The United Nations has a little-known agency called the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs.
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October 04, 2010
Chinese scientists have been analysing new data gathered from a cave in the Taihang mountains, which appears to show that man-made global warming could be having a significant effect on its weather.
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October 04, 2010
Dr Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, European Co-ordinator of the Census of Marine Life Project, talks to the BBC’s Daniel Boettcher about some of the findings of the survey
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September 30, 2010
Astronomers have detected an Earth-like exoplanet that may have just the right kind of conditions to support life.
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September 30, 2010
Scientists at the University of Birmingham are studying whether or not babies can tell when people are talking to them.
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September 27, 2010
The UK’s first litter of Northern cheetah cubs born were born at Whipsnade Zoo recently, and their birth is largely due to a specially designed part of the animals' enclosure.
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September 25, 2010
The delayed Soyuz capsule carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts has landed safely back on earth after six months on the International Space Station.
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September 24, 2010
A Canadian student inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s centuries-old sketches of an ornithopter he was the first to make a sustained flight in a human-powered, wing-flapping aircraft.
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September 24, 2010
David Shukman joins an exercise off Southampton to see how the UK oil industry would deal with a disaster on the scale of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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September 24, 2010
Research physicist Bair Shaibonov talks about his work on the neutrino telescope at the bottom of Russia’s Lake Baikal.
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September 23, 2010
Forensic Entomologist Amoret Whitaker of the Natural History Museum explains how the study of the fly’s life cycle, can help homicide detectives catch murderers.
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September 22, 2010
A construction team has discovered a 24-foot long whale skeleton at the San Diego Zoo in California.
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September 20, 2010
Scientists in America are using an industrial crane to study the life cycle of some of their tallest trees.
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September 17, 2010
A Spanish fashion designer has come up with the concept of "spray-on clothing", thanks to some help from chemical engineers at Imperial College London.
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September 16, 2010
Charging a deposit for plastic and glass drinks bottles would drastically reduce litter, campaigners have said.
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September 16, 2010
Microsoft’s Leila Martine shows Rory Cellan-Jones the 'high graphic power' of its new web browser.
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September 15, 2010
The government has set out plans to license farmers in England to shoot badgers on their land, with tens of thousands of animals potentially targeted.
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