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Moa bird bones reveal DNA half-life but Jurassic Park remains fiction

13.09.2013 17:26
Moa birds disappeared from New Zealand following the arrival of human settlers in the 13th century, but their fossils now provide us with a valuable clues about long-term DNA survival and how DNA decays over thousands of years. In a paper published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, we...

Voyager 1 leaving solar system matches feats of great human explorers

13.09.2013 17:11
It's official. Voyager 1 has left the solar system. While there will be little immediate benefit from this feat, it does represent a historic milestone of exploration. Voyager 1's achievement is every bit as important as Roald Amundsen's party reaching the South Pole on 14 December 1911, or Edmund...

Shark attacks feared in Hawaii after molasses spill

13.09.2013 16:58
Hawaii health officials have warned swimmers and surfers to stay out of the waters near Honolulu harbour after a leak of 1,400 tons of molasses killed hundreds of fish, potentially attracting sharks. The Hawaii department of health deployed three boats to remove the dead fish, and they were...

Italy's wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship to be raised

13.09.2013 16:53
The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship could be upright again next week, nearly two years after the liner capsized and killed at least 30 people off the Italian coast. The giant vessel, which has lain partly submerged in shallow waters off the Tuscan island of Giglio since the accident in January...

Mars One: did you apply for the one-way trip to the red planet?

06.09.2013 18:10
More than 165,000 people from 140 countries have applied for a one-way ticket to Mars in the hope of establishing the first permanent human colony. The Mars One project will cost £4bn and hopes to recoup the cost in part by selling broadcasting rights: "This mission to Mars can be the biggest media...

Why the jury's still out on the risk of Arctic methane catastrophe

06.09.2013 17:53
About a week ago, climate scientist Michael Tobis wrote a critique of my 'Seven facts about the Arctic methane time bomb ' following a twitter exchange with him and Chris Colose, author of an article at Skeptical Science arguing that the core scenario of a new Nature paper by Gail Whiteman et. al...

A monster star in the making, a Martian volcano, Earth's 'selfie' and Curiosity's successor – in pictures

06.09.2013 17:47
This swirl of gas reminiscent of the time tunnel in the 1960s TV series of the same name, is the centre of galaxy NGC 524. Located in the constellation of Pisces some 90m light-years from Earth, it is a 'lenticular' galaxy – believed to be an intermediate state between elliptical and spiral...

William Friedkin: 'I got fired five times from The Exorcist!'

06.09.2013 17:41
Legendary director William Friedkin has just been given a lifetime achievement award at the Venice film festival, but he is still making big, critically acclaimed movies, such as last year's Killer Joe. He looks back on his career, and the film he considers his best, 1977's Sorcerer William...

The singer Petula Clark: My family values

06.09.2013 17:37
My earliest childhood memory is of the sea. It was in Bognor Regis and I was probably five. I was on top of a bus with my dad, Leslie. I remember flags along the front and I thought the sea was extraordinary. I grew up in West Ewell, Surrey, but as a child spent a fair bit of time between...

Last remaining witness to Hitler's final hours dies aged 96

06.09.2013 17:23
BERLIN, Germany -- The last remaining witness to Adolf Hitler's final hours in his Berlin bunker, Rochus Misch, who also served as the fuhrer's devoted bodyguard for most of World War II died Thursday, aged 96. Burkhard Nachtigall, who helped him write his 2008 memoir, told The Associated Press in...
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