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Australian spider Dolomedes briangreenei

Australian spider breathes under water eats fish frogs toads and tadpoles

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An Australian spider that breathes under water and eats fish, frogs, toads and tadpoles - Dolomedes briangreenei - has been named in honour of...
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Skype is ending support for its apps on Smart TVs

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Skype announced that it is ending support for its apps on smart TVs. The Microsoft-owned video calling service has decided to stop supporting its smart...
InSight Mars Lander launching in 2018

InSight Mars lander launch delayed till May 2018 due to leaks

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NASA is rescheduling its Insight Mars lander launch until May 2018 – twenty-six months later than the March 2016 sendoff that had originally been...
Is that a flying saucer being transported

Flying saucer transported by HGV truck in Arizona

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What is this HGV truck transporting in Arizona coming out of Area 51 – doesn’t it look eerily like a flying saucer? The image,...

Number of UK workers on zero-hour contracts increased to 801,000

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Zero-hour contracts are becoming more common in the UK. The number of workers on zero-hour contracts increased by 104,000 over the past year to...
Sun will die like this

The world will end when the Sun dies like this says Hubble Telescope

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The world will end when the Sun dies, just like this, the Hubble Space Telescope informed via a colourful image of a dying star,...
Teacher who transformed Stephen Hawking from lazy pupil

Stephen Hawking says teacher transformed him from lazy pupil to lover of maths

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World-famous theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking says that an inspirational teacher transformed him from a lazy pupil into a keen lover of maths who...
Laser on a silicon chip the Holy Grail

Laser on a silicon chip Holy Grail of incredibly fast communications

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The Holy Grail of incredibly fast communications – a laser on a silicon chip – has been achieved in an incredible breakthrough by a...
Mars soil good for growing vegetables

Mars soil good for growing ten different crop species gardening experiment

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Mars soil is good for growing ten different crop species, say surprised scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) in The Netherlands, after...
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Microsoft intends to shut down Lionhead Studios, ceases Fable Legends development

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Microsoft announced its intention to shut down Lionhead Studios, the British video game studio behind the blockbuster Fable series. Development for Lionhead’s latest installment 'Fable...