Stephen Hawking: religious leaders dismiss 'God not needed' comments
The Archbishop of Canterbury has dismissed the conclusion by Stephen Hawking, the retired Cambridge scientist, that the Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not ...
Fri 3 Sep 10 from Telegraph.co.uk
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Brain exercises delay mental decline
New research suggests exercising your brain can keep you sharper for longer into old age, but when the symptoms of dementia finally settle in, the decline happens faster.
Fri 3 Sep 10 from ABC Science
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Dying star in hot water
Astronomers think light from distant stars may be forming water on a dying red giant twice the mass and 700 times the size of our Sun.
Thu 2 Sep 10 from ABC Science
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Ancient funeral feast unearthed
The remains of a huge 12,000 year old feast have been found in a cave in Northern Israel.
Wed 1 Sep 10 from BBC News
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Plans for solar 'close encounter'
Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.
20 hours ago from BBC News
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Climate-change assessment: Must try harder
A call to reform the IPCCIF THIS week’s report into the workings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by a council of national academies of science were the sort of ...
Thu 2 Sep 10 from The Economist
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Ants take on Goliath role in protecting trees in the savanna from elephants
Ants are not out of their weight class when defending trees from the appetite of nature's heavyweight, the African elephant, a new University of Florida study finds.
Thu 2 Sep 10 from PhysOrg
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Preventive cancer surgeries save women's lives
A new study underscores the importance for women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer to get genetic counseling and testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that make them more likely ...
Tue 31 Aug 10 from PhysOrg
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Beefy dino sported fearsome claws
Fossils from a new type of dinosaur which looks like a beefy version of the predatory Velociraptor has been unearthed in Romania.
Tue 31 Aug 10 from BBC News
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Study: Diet Drug Meridia May Boost Heart Risks
A new study finds that some users of the weight-loss pill Meridia may have an increased risk of heart attack or stroke
Wed 1 Sep 10 from TIME
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