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Most luminous gamma-ray pulsar known discovered, NASA

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Scientists have discovered the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar known. It is also the first gamma-ray pulsar to be found in a galaxy other than our...
Great tits in love on twig

Great tits in love prefer to starve than be separated

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Great tits in love have a bond that would be the envy of most human couples. They prefer to go without food rather than...
5400 mph winds recorded on exoplanet

5400 mph winds found on exoplanet, 20x greater than anything on Earth

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An exoplanet with 5400 mph winds - which is seven times the speed of sound, or twenty times faster than anything ever recorded on Earth - has...
Porous liquid hole absorbs gas

Ultra-porous liquid with may be our carbon capture solution

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An ultra-porous liquid that absorbs incredible quantities of gas in its tiny holes, invented by an international team of researchers, could become our solution...
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Amazon launches next-day grocery delivery service in the UK

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Amazon is expanding its presence in Britain's grocery market with the launch of a new service for its Prime customers called “Pantry”. Pantry allows Amazon...
UK retail sales

US retail sales only rose 0.1% in October

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US retail sales rose a modest 0.1% in October, missing economists’ expectations of a 0.3% rise. Total retail sales for the month were $447.3 billion....
Housing Starts

UK construction sector contracted for third consecutive month

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Britain’s construction sector contracted for the third straight month in September, according to the recent data released by the the Office for National Statistics...
Mass extinction artist impression

After mass extinction little fishes call the shots, large animals lose out big time

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After a mass extinction, such as the Hangenberg Event 359 million years ago, the oceans were dominated by significantly smaller fish for several tens...
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Honey in human diet for at least 8500 years, study shows

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Humans have been consuming honey for at least the past 8,500 years, a new study has found, after detecting traces of beeswax in cooking vessels from...
Earth had water right from the start

Earth had water from day one – it did not come from comets and...

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The Earth had water from day one, it was not brought here by comets and meteorites, as many space scientists and geologists have suggested,...