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Bbc Science News


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Why zebras evolved their stripes

8 Feb 2012 at 8:59pm  A zebra's unmistakeable stripes may have evolved to make the animals unattractive to blood-sucking flies, say scientists.
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Threshold broken for tiny lasers

8 Feb 2012 at 11:09am  Researchers build efficient lasers just 100 billionths of a metre across that may be used to make faster computer chips in the future.
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America and Asia 'will join up'

8 Feb 2012 at 10:06am  Researchers say most of the world's continents will merge somewhere over the Pacific "ring of fire" in 50-200 million years.
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Russians claim Antarctic success

8 Feb 2012 at 6:29am  Russian scientists are reporting success in their quest to drill into Lake Vostok, a huge body of liquid water buried under the Antarctic ice.
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Corals inflate to escape the sand

7 Feb 2012 at 7:38pm  Time-lapse footage reveals how mushroom corals inflate and deflate to free themselves from smothering sand.
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'Invader' drives ladybird decline

6 Feb 2012 at 5:23pm  Fast declines in some UK and European ladybirds are being caused by the spread of the invasive harlequin species, scientists show.
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Whales 'stressed by ocean noise'

7 Feb 2012 at 7:28pm  A study of hormones in whale faeces shows that right whales are stressed by propeller noise from shipping.
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Skydiver planning 36km record bid

6 Feb 2012 at 5:03pm  Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian planning to sky dive from a record-breaking altitude, has announced he will make the attempt later this year.
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Parkinson's cells 'made in lab'

7 Feb 2012 at 11:57pm  Scientists in the US have successfully made human brain cells in the lab that are an exact replica of genetically caused Parkinson's disease.
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Wolfram Alpha unveils Pro service

7 Feb 2012 at 7:51am  The data-crunching site unveils a premium service that allows users to upload data, photos and sounds for analysis.
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