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• Mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah dies aged 89

  12-01-2019 13:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The former Cambridge professor had received the highest honour in his subject - a Fields Medal.
  
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• Spektr-R: Russia's only space telescope 'not responding'

  12-01-2019 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Spektr-R has stopped receiving commands from Earth, Russian astrophysicists say.
  
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• Trump administration expands oil drilling despite shutdown

  12-01-2019 12:00
  Interior department continues processing permits and moves forward with controversial plan to increase drilling in the ArcticThree weeks into the longest US government shutdown in history, many important government services have been paused – but the Trump administration has continued efforts to expand oil drilling.Despite the shutdown directive, which has seen national park staff furloughed and the parks suffering from neglect, the interior department has continued processing oil drilling
  
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• Shutdown halts key services – but Trump administration expands oil drilling

  12-01-2019 12:00
  Interior department continues processing permits and moves forward with controversial plan to increase drilling in the ArcticThree weeks into the longest US government shutdown in history, many important government services have been paused – but the Trump administration has continued efforts to expand oil drilling.Despite the shutdown directive, which has seen national park staff furloughed and the parks suffering from neglect, the interior department has continued processing oil drilling
  
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• Rise of the vegan vegetable: the farmers who shun animal manure | Patrick Barkham

  12-01-2019 09:00
  Vegans are increasingly looking for ways to grow their fruit, vegetables and cereals without animal manure“An olive orchard cultivated in a conventional manner is a bloody wound in nature,” declares Johannes Eisenbach as he drives – fast – south along the gleaming new Greek motorways towards Kalamata. The olives are harvested, the branches are burned, and all these nutritional elements leave the olive grove and never return.Eisenbach is an ebullient German with a Bluetoot
  
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• Drivers resist low-emission scheme as London struggles to clean up its air

  12-01-2019 07:00
  Aim to reclaim polluted streets from traffic has been met with ‘hate and anger’ from someAs the lights change, the thundering morning traffic comes to a stop at one of London’s busiest junctions. Hundreds of people on bikes seize their chance and stream across the seven-lane intersection before disappearing into the relative safety of the UK’s first ultra-low emission area.The network of streets in east London has become a haven for cyclists and pedestrians since two loca
  
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• On a wing and a player: hopes webcam can save endangered albatross

  12-01-2019 02:00
  Footage of tiny colony of birds on the southern tip of New Zealand captivates millions around the globeMillions of amateur naturalists around the world have been tuning in to the secret lives of albatrosses as New Zealand rangers employ YouTube in a bid to save the mysterious giant sea birds.New Zealand conservation teams set up a 24-hour live-stream of an albatross nest at Taiaroa Head on the Otago peninsula in 2016. Three years on, the feed has become an unexpected global hit, with 2.3 million
  
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