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Traces of life on Mars may have been bleached away
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Predict an Oscar winner by crunching the numbers
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Oil spill firm to pay $400 million to fix Gulf coast
Offshore drilling firm Transocean is to pay a huge fine for its role in the Deepwater Horizon spill, helping fund restoration work in the affected states
The fish with a rainbow eye
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Nuclear waste: too hot to handle?
Cumbria's decision to veto an underground repository for the UK shows how hard it is to find a long-term solution, say William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley
Wiping out top predators messes up the climate
It isn't just the food chain that is disrupted when creatures at the top die out - so are mechanisms that keep carbon dioxide emissions down
False memories prime immune system for future attacks
Exposing our bodies to vaccines based on benign microbes could promote immunity to much nastier but totally different diseases
Taxpayers' money keeps Japan's whaling fleet afloat
Public funds subsidise Japan's whaling industry to the tune of $8.9 million, even though only 11 per cent of citizens support it
Did police use Twitter effectively during the riots?
An analysis of tweets from the UK riots of 2011 compares how police in different cities varied in their approaches to communicating with the public
Tongue-tingling interface lets you taste data
Tongueduino's electrodes send signals from sensors to the tongue, allowing taste buds to "read" information such as the orientation of Earth's magnetic field
Meteor guide: science and safety of Earth-bound rocks
As the meteorite landing in Russia today showed, space rocks can be destructive - but they also tell us about a lot about our solar system
Quake could rock asteroid as it skims Earth
The near-Earth fly-by of the huge space rock 2012 DA14 could reveal an asteroid quake in action
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