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A BP report says "a series of failures" by BP and its contractors were to blame for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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An overweight orang-utan, who was Britain's fattest primate, has been put on a strict new diet.
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Palaeontologists uncover a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feathers.
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Four animal rights activists admit waging a hate campaign against people linked to a Cambridgeshire animal testing laboratory.
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The UK business Secretary Vince Cable has unveiled plans for a squeeze on public funding for scientific research.
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The EU agrees on new rules to reduce the number of animals used in lab experiments and tighten controls over such procedures.
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A team of explorers and scientists will be soon setting out for Antarctica for what they hope will be the fastest land crossing of the continent ever.
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A fungus that 'eats' cine film could cause irreversible damage important archive films which hold a record of British social history.
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Domestic heat pumps need to be subject to tighter regulations in order for them to deliver widespread energy savings, a report suggests.
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Business Secretary Vince Cable says "the bar will have to be raised" on science funding
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Todmorden, in West Yorkshire, is striving to become self sufficient by growing fruit and vegetables and keeping livestock.
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Mould, flies, and maggots - watch what happens when food is left to rot
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Why people who say 'I don't know' are smarter than we think
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Underwater 'flying machine' seeks investors
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Scientists carry out the first rigorous analysis of dance moves that make men attractive to women.
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Europe's gravity probe, Goce, is returned to health after being knocked offline because some onboard systems got too cold as the satellite circled the Earth.
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Giant spiral galaxies caught "feasting" on their smaller neighbours
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A massive expansion is to take place at Europe's largest onshore wind farm in East Renfrewshire.
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High definition (HD) video is being used to assess how wave energy devices will affect the ecology of coastal areas.
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Some of the UK's rarest bumblebees are at risk of becoming extinct as a result of inbreeding, research suggests.
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A study suggests climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa, challenging widely held assumptions.
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Carbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars after all, say scientists.
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Cockroach and locust brains are a rich source of antibiotics powerful enough to tackle MRSA, researchers say.
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Former UK Prime Minster Tony Blair warns world leaders they may pay a heavy price in history if they fail to tackle global warming.
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A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells.
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A group of Danish rocket enthusiasts trying to launch a dummy 30km into the sky abort the mission when a valve on their rocket freezes up.
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Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.
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Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.
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New-born twin giant pandas made their first public appearance at a zoo in Japan on Friday in Shirahama.
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The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped.
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