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• The hidden treasures of Mount Mabu – in pictures

  25-03-2017 22:00
  
  In the mid-2000s, in a room at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, Professor Julian Bayliss used Google Earth to discover a hidden rainforest in Northern Mozambique which is home to dozens of new species of flora and fauna. Professor Bayliss and Alliance Earth Director Jeffrey Barbee ventured with a team into the heart of the forest.To find out more about the expedition click here Continue reading...
  
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• 'We've left junk everywhere': why space pollution could be humanity's next big problem

  25-03-2017 21:57
  
  With satellites under threat from collisions, a former lieutenant is now focused on technology that can remove space debrisJason Held rekindled his love for space while lying in a ditch in Bosnia in 1996, where he was one of 16,500 US troops deployed on a peacekeeping mission at the end of the Bosnian War. Then a lieutenant, he says he had “nothing to do but to watch the two armies put their guns away”. So he signed up for a class in undergraduate biology through an army education pr
  
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• Foreign companies flock to build nuclear plants in the UK

  25-03-2017 17:00
  
  A South Korean firm is just the latest to be lured by Britain’s atomic amibitions as safety concerns and cost stalk the industryNuclear energy faces an uncertain future globally as concerns over safety and cost dog the industry. But in the UK, foreign investors are queueing up to back projects. The latest is South Korea. Its biggest power company is in talks to join the consortium backing a nuclear power station in Cumbria, in a sign of the continuing allure of Britain’s atomic ambit
  
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• Changing to BST: Will the clock change affect your kids?

  25-03-2017 12:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Research is under way to determine how clock changes affect children's sleep patterns.
  
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• Fell race tests even the spectators

  25-03-2017 06:30
  
  Dent Fell, west Cumbria Runners in the Jarrett’s Jaunt race have little time to appreciate the fell’s panoramic views of the Solway FirthBy hump-backed Wath Brow bridge, weary fell runners step gingerly down slippery banking into the icy waters of the river Ehen, swollen by overnight rain. Ah, the blessed relief as they rub and knead their calves with fingers and thumbs, jabbing deep into the muscles, soothing aches caused by scaling fellsides so steep they sometimes needed hands to
  
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• Cardboard cribs

  25-03-2017 01:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What evidence is there that Finland's famous baby boxes actually reduce infant mortality rates?
  
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