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Gerbils from Asia rather than black rats were responsible for repeated outbreaks of the bubonic plague in Europe, a study suggests.
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A Californian start-up will be allowed to advertise a mail order DNA test that screens for a rare genetic condition.
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The debate continues over whether killer whales should be kept in captivity in theme parks.
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A forgotten museum specimen mistaken for a plaster copy is found to be the fossilised remains of a new species of ancient reptile.
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Palaeontologist Dean Lomax explains how what had been mistaken for a plaster copy turned out to be a new species of ancient marine reptile.
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A British farmer claims to have developed a new variety of red onion which does not cause people to cry when it is chopped.
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In a radical new approach to HIV vaccination, DNA in monkeys is transformed and seems to give total protection against the virus, US scientists say.
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As cold and snowy weather continues to affect the US, part of Niagara Falls has frozen over.
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An alien star passed through our Solar System just 70,000 years ago, astronomers have announced.
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Engineers in the UK have found that limpets' teeth consist of the strongest biological material ever tested.
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The US pays 87m pesos ($1.97m: £1.28m) to the Philippines over damage caused to a protected reef by a US Navy ship.
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The route used by mountaineers to scale Mount Everest is to be changed for 2015, following last year's avalanche that killed 16.
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A webcam recorded the dramatic moment the Colima Volcano in western Mexico
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A new project at Glasgow University aims to help resolve why robins are up all night singing in cities.
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Penguins lost most of their sense of taste long ago in evolution, scientists have discovered.
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Scientists struggle to explain a vast haze that was spotted high above the Martian surface in 2012 by amateur astronomers.
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Researchers in Palo Alto in the US state of California are working with the most powerful X-ray laser in the world.
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The UK's political leaders have pledged to work together to combat climate change, whatever the election result.
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The UK's three main political leaders make a pledge to work together to combat climate change, whatever the election result.
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Vint Cerf, a "father of the internet", says a way must be found to stop all our images and documents being lost through technological obsolescence.
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