On these pages you'll find astronomy news from a variety of specific sources rather than general astronomy news.
Each page (from the menu below) shows up-to-date news from the specific resource.
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| BBC Science News
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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