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Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94
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First Light fusion startup breaks pressure record using giant ‘gun’ machine for projectile fusion attempts
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How laboratory glassware is blown in the UK
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Womb transplants are now a life-changing reality. Here’s how the extraordinary procedure works.
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UK's nuclear fusion site (JET) ends experiments after forty years
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Plan for £100m UK underwater living research facility move forward
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Man bitten by stray cat contracts infection unknown to science
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UK hobbyist discovers new unique shapes, stunning mathematicians
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The first few moments of an explosion can't be simulated yet. But there's a team at the University of Sheffield working on it.
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Dismantling Sellafield: The epic task of shutting down a nuclear site
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Fossil of ‘earliest animal predator’ is named after David Attenborough
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Autopsy of Adam & Eve: Looking at a selection of paper instruments from the 15th-17th century, at the Royal Society
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The hidden background noise that can catch criminals
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Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years
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A new species of dinosaur with an unusually large nose has been identified by a retired GP who spent lockdown rummaging through boxes of hundreds of old bones
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We look at a fascinating object loaned to the Royal Society - a Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder
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Five parrots separated at British zoo after encouraging each other to curse profusely at guests
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I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it?
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Rock of ages: How chalk made England
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CT scan catches 70% of lung cancers at early stage, NHS study finds
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Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials
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British farmers need all the help science can offer. Time to allow gene editing
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The tempest prognosticator
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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Ten years after vaccination was introduced, no HPV16/18 infections were found in sexually active 16-18 year old females in England according to public health data
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Mary Anning inspired 'she sells sea shells' — but she was actually a legendary fossil hunter
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Scientists at the University of Oxford unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass"
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Two unborn babies' spines repaired in womb in UK surgery first
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What happens if someone catches the Loch Ness Monster?
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The location for Stonehenge may have been chosen due to the presence of a natural geological feature
I watched a documentary about Stonehenge tonight, and it proposed the theory that the location for Stonehenge was chosen because of a natural geological feature in the area. There's a man-made...
I watched a documentary about Stonehenge tonight, and it proposed the theory that the location for Stonehenge was chosen because of a natural geological feature in the area.
There's a man-made path that proceeds south-west towards Stonehenge: "The Avenue". This path was built around the same era as Stonehenge itself. If you walk westward along The Avenue on the winter solstice, you'll be facing the point on the horizon where the sun sets. However, under The Avenue, there's an old natural geological formation from the time of the Ice Age: a series of ridges in the rock which just coincidentally align with the sunset on the winter solstice (an "axis mundi"). Before Stonehenge was built, there was a chalk knoll on that location. That meant that you could walk along a natural geological path towards the sunset on the shortest day of the year, and there was a local geological landmark in front of you.
The theory is that these natural geological formations coincidentally aligning with an astronomical phenomenon made the site a special one for early Britons. That's why there was a burial site there, and later Stonehenge was built there.
Here's the article by the archaeologist who discovered the Ice Age ridges: Researching Stonehenge: Theories Past and Present
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Scientists at CERN have observed direct coupling of the Higgs Boson to the top quark
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