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What's the diving like around the UK?
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The UK has some fabulous diving in her seas, not least on the hundreds of wrecks. There is also beautiful marine life and at times stunning visibility. Discover the secret dives of Britain.
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The Ice and the Canary: Alpine Climbing in a Changing Climate
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The summer of 2015 saw a major heatwave hit the Alps, making climbing conditions difficult and closing the Gouter hut on Mont Blanc for several weeks. Climate change is making such heatwaves more frequent and more severe. This ar
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City cycle commutes around the world mapped
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For the first time, Strava an app best known for letting athletes track and compare their activities has released data that filters commute cycle rides, creating maps that offer an insight into how city-dwellers ride to work. S
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Volcanic eruptions affect flow of world's major rivers
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Major volcanic eruptions can have a significant effect on the flow of the biggest rivers around the world, research shows. In the first study of its kind, scientists sought to better understand how big volcanic eruptions, which ca
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Big gulp: feeding strategy of blue whales revealed
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The blue whale is the largest creature on Earth and perhaps the biggest that ever lived, so it is no surprise it has a huge appetite. But the strategies this behemoth uses to get enough food has not been well understood - until no
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Signals from empty space
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What are the properties of the vacuum, the absolute nothingness? So far, physicists have assumed that it is impossible to directly access the characteristics of the ground state of empty space. Now, a team of physicists has succee
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Supernova 'stream' in lab's sights
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A global collaboration will aim to unravel the mysteries of neutrinos - also known as "ghost particles".
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Tracking British Columbia's secretive sea wolf
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National Geographic photographers reveal their intimate encounters with these unique coastal predators.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/tracking-british-columbias-secretive-sea-wolf
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4 books to inspire your next hike
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These memoirs will set you on trails filled with nature beauty and self-realization.
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/4-books-inspire-your-next-hike
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Virginia Students to Speak Live with Space Station Crew
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A group of students from Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia, will get the chance to speak with an astronaut who once studied in their classrooms and now is working and living on the International Space Station.
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Asteroids found to be the moon's main 'water supply'
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Water reserves found on the moon are the result of asteroids acting as 'delivery vehicles' and not of falling comets as was previously thought. Using computer simulation, scientists have discovered that a large asteroid can delive
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New dinosaur species discovered on Alaska's North Slope
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Museum researchers have described a new species of dinosaur based on fossils excavated from Alaska's North Slope. The world's northernmost dinosaurs lived in darkness for months at a time and probably experienced snow. The three k
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Archaeology Subfields
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Archaeology has many subfields--including both ways of thinking about archaeology and ways of studying archaeology
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India successfully launches its first space observatory
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India successfully launched its first space observatory and six satellites into orbit on Monday, officials said, the latest step forward for a country looking to become a major player in the lucrative space market. The observatory
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Planetary Close-Up Reveals Pluto
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“What is that?” planetary scientist Barbara Cohen gasped, marvelling at the latest images of Pluto released on September 24.
Cohen, of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is not alone. It is a questi
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In Search of an Elusive Echidna
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Paul Barnes is a fresh-faced PhD student from the Institute of Zoology. He is passionate, well-spoken and has devoted himself to what some people believe is a hopeless cause.Paul hopes to find evidence of, maybe even a living spec
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SciCheck: Carson rewrites laws of thermodynamics
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Ben Carson claimed that prevailing theories of how the universe began and how planets and stars formed violate the second law of thermodynamics. His comments represent a misunderstanding of scientific concepts...
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NASA to Announce Mars Mystery Solved
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NASA will detail a major science finding from the agency's ongoing exploration of Mars during a news briefing at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28 at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The event will be
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Shark attacks in California plunged 90 per cent since 1950s
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Swimmers and surfers today are about 90 per cent less likely to be attacked by sharks off California's coast than they were in the 1950s, even though there are hundreds of thousands more people in the water, according to a new stu
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Diving Tenerife and the Canary Islands
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Together with their adjacent seamounts, the Canary Islands hold the most diverse elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) community of the whole European Union, with 79 species identified. The angel shark (Squatina squatina), for example,
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