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Scotland

Congestion charges urged for Scotland to meet climate change targets by Committee on Climate...

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While praising Scotland for making progress towards meeting greenhouse gas emission targets, congestion charges should be implemented by the Scottish government to secure its...
Giant Salamander ancestor

Massive salamander prehistoric ancestor was top predator 200 million years ago

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A distant relative of today’s salamanders, a massive crocodile-like amphibian that existed during the rise of the dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, was...
The City

Blackstone buys “Times Square” office building in the City of London for £268.4 million

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Blackstone Group LP has agreed to purchase an office building in the heart of London’s financial district, "Times Square", for £268.4 million from Land...

Panasonic is making some of its technologies royalty free to spur growth in the...

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Panasonic is making some of its own software and patents royalty free in an effort to boost the development of the Internet of Things...
Manufacturing PMI

Chinese manufacturing dropped to lowest level in 11 months

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Chinese manufacturing dropped to its lowest level in nearly a year as new orders decline, according to HSBC's preliminary manufacturing index. The lackluster manufacturing results...
Remnants

Huge explosion in the sky 345 years ago was a stellar collision, not a...

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In 1670, European astronomers saw a spectacular explosion in the sky, which the European Southern Observatory says was not a nova, but a much...
Export - Cardboard Box on Hand Truck.

UK factory orders stagnate in March as manufacturers lose steam

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UK factory orders stagnated in March because of a significant drop in new business from abroad. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) survey of 468...
William Smith

‘The Map that Changed the World’ unearthed by an archivist 200 years later

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The first geological map of a country ever produced and previously thought lost has been uncovered by an archivist at The Geological Society of...
Boeing new patent

Boeing ‘force field’ as seen in Star Trek registered at US patent office

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The Boeing Company, the aerospace and defence giant, has obtained a patent for a Star Trek-style “force field” technology aimed at protecting military vehicles...
impact

Giant 400-km wide asteroid impact zone discovered in Australia

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An asteroid that broke in two moments before crashing into Earth created a 400 kilometre (248 mile) wide impact zone in Central Australia, researchers...