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• Orion: Uncertainty ahead for new US spaceship

  06-12-2014 18:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The distant - very distant - prospects of a landing on Mars
  
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• Comics of the week reviewed for 06 December

  06-12-2014 18:47
  
  Having taken over movies, television and
  animation, comics have never been cooler. Now, WIRED.co.uk picks
  out the best and worst of the week's titles for your reading
  pleasure.
  
  This week is one for new beginnings, with Blaxploitation
  legend Shaft getting his first comic series,
  Alan Moore providing a look at the future of the depraved world
  of Crossed, and Vertigo's Wolf
  Moon  delivering a refreshingly horrific take on
  werewolves.
  By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Peru glaciers 'melting at alarming rate'

  06-12-2014 15:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts have warned that Peru's glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, threatening the survival of an estimated 30 million people.
  
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• VIDEO: Seal colony breaks pupping records

  06-12-2014 03:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A record-breaking number of seal pups have been born at a nature reserve in north Norfolk with another two months of the breeding season remaining.
  
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• Seals filmed at night for first time

  06-12-2014 03:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pioneering filming techniques are set to be used to capture a record-breaking seal colony in north Norfolk for the new season of the BBC's Winterwatch series.
  
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• Why your bra doesn't fit: Sizes used by lingerie industry are based on men's WWI uniform!

  06-12-2014 03:02 via
  
  Surprising as it may seem, the sizing system used by the lingerie industry dates back a hundred years – and is based on men’s measurements.
  
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• Mystery of the moon's magnetic core: Researchers find new evidence lunar centre once had a 'dynamo' at its heart

  06-12-2014 02:10 via
  
  MIT researchers believe a lunar dynamo, a molten, churning core at the centre of the moon, may have powered an intense magnetic field for at least 1 billion years.
  
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• California's drought is worst for 1,200 years - but worse is to come, warn scientists

  06-12-2014 01:30 via
  
  Woods Hole scientists looking at the cumulative effects of temperature, low precipitation and other factors said that it all adds up to the worst conditions in more than a millennium.
  
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• Perfectly preserved 'ghost ship' from 1923 with wheel and mast still intact found off the Hawaii coast 

  06-12-2014 01:01 via
  
  Launched in Chester, Pennsylvania in early 1923, Dickenson was a vital part of a global network of submarine cable that carried messages around the world.
  
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• Steve Jobs' video testimony recorded before death in 2011 transfixes courtroom

  06-12-2014 00:18 via
  
  More than three years after his death, legendary Apple CEO Steve Jobs held an Oakland courtroom transfixed today as attorneys played a video of his testimony in a class-action lawsuit.
  
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