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Birds have developed syntax in communication

Birds have evolved syntax and communicate like humans do

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Birds have evolved syntax and communicate according to various calls using specific rules just like humans, do, say scientists from Sweden, Switzerland and Japan....
Ichthyosaurs killed off 100 million years ago

Ichthyosaurs killed off by dramatic climate change say scientists

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Ichthyosaurs, marine animals that looked like a cross between a dolphin and a fish and existed at the time of the dinosaurs, were killed...
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Brexit warning by Carney who believes banks would leave London

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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned MPs that leaving the EU would have a significant impact on the UK economy and increase the...
Polygons of Pluto being studied

Polygons of Pluto

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At yesterday’s New Horizon’s blog, Katie Knight, an undergraduate student at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee, USA, wrote about the Polygons of Pluto. Ms....
Clouds on Pluto detected

Pluto has clouds so should be promoted back to planet scientists say

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Clouds have been detected on Pluto, which scientists argue should be reason enough to promote it back to planet status, which it lost ten...
Darwin Cambridge University Library exhibition

Darwin Newton Hawking display by Cambridge University Library exhibition

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A new display by Cambridge University Library, celebrating its 600th birthday, has fascinating Darwin and Newton pages as well as a new picture of...
Albert Einstein equations used to simulate expansion of Universe

Equations by Einstein to simulate expansion of Universe

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Scientists have used equations by Einstein to simulate the expansion of the Universe – they developed a new code of numerical simulations that offers...

BoE offering extra liquidity to UK banks in the run up to EU referendum

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The Bank of England announced that it will be offering banks extra funds in the event of the UK voting to the EU. Commercial banks...
Wellcome Image Awards 2016

Wellcome Image Awards you can vote for your favourite

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You can vote for your favourite of the 19 finalists in the Wellcome Image Awards – the Wellcome Trust’s most eye-catching celebration of life,...
Iceberg thought to have struck the Titanic

Titanic sunk by mega iceberg 100000 years old says Sheffield professor

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RMS Titanic, the British passenger liner that sank in 1912, hit a mega iceberg 100000 years old, says Professor Grant Bigg from the University...