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Space muscles study to use tiny worms
The worms are being used because they have a similar muscle structure to humans.
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Trash Robot cleans up Chicago River's rubbish
The robot connects to the internet so web users can control it and donate to pay maintenance costs.
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Russians protest over 'toxic' landfill near Moscow
The Russian capital has no recycling programme and its expanding rubbish landfills are causing health problems.
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Using astronomy to save a species
Scientists have been developing a technique to count animals that is usually used to map stars.
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Dozen black holes found at galactic centre
A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, researchers say.
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Births of endangered Suffolk punch foals celebrated
Two Suffolk punch horses are being put forward for a charity's breeding programme.
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Great white shark follows police off Australian coast
They were patrolling off the South Australian coast when they noticed something behind them.
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The whales who love to sing in the dark
A new study reveals the surprising complexity of bowhead whale song.
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Conservationists use astronomy software to save species
Researchers use astronomical techniques used to study distant stars to survey endangered species.
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Antarctica 'gives ground to the ocean'
The White Continent is surrendering ocean floor as the undersides of its glaciers are melted.
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'Send in the drones' to protect soil
Drones should be used to locate and penalise farmers who let soil run off their fields, a report will say.
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Dinosaur tracks on Skye 'globally important'
Researchers find that the footprints belonged to sauropods and therapods from the Middle Jurassic period.
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Tiangong-1: Defunct China space lab comes down over South Pacific
China's defunct Tiangong-1 space lab mostly burnt up on re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
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Mission to demonstrate space junk tech
A European, UK-led project aims to showcase how space debris could be removed from orbit.
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Dumping pesticides, using ducks instead
Bernard Poujol believes ducks are the future for rice farms, but he hasn't quite perfected his technique.
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RAF looks to space for the future
The Royal Air Force pushing boundaries, 100 years since it began. Three women serving with the RAF explain.
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Rhino census in India's Kaziranga park counts 12 more
A census suggests that one-horn rhino numbers have increased by 12 to 2,413 in the national park.
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Tesla in fatal California crash was on Autopilot
The company says a Model X vehicle involved in a fatal crash in the US was in Autopilot mode.
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Vanishing lake
It's been shrinking fast, but could a plan to divert water to one of Africa's largest lakes stop it disappearing?
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Shipping faces demands to cut CO2
The industry could contribute almost a fifth of the global total of CO2 by 2050 but some nations resist targets.
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