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• Planet Earth II: The internet gasped in collective awe as two brave cameramen ran through a huge swarm of locusts

  27-11-2016 23:47
  
  Give them a Bafta already.
  
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• Group warns of saltmarsh sparrow's possible extinction

  27-11-2016 17:08
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Many birds in Connecticut are suffering slow, steady population declines because of a loss of nesting areas, and scientists say the saltmarsh sparrow could be extinct in 50 years, becoming the first avian extinction in the continental U.S. since 1931, the Connecticut Audubon Society reports.
  
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• Brace yourselves - the UK is about to get nippy

  27-11-2016 16:50
  
  Temperatures will be dropping to -5c or -6c in rural areas and -1c to -3c in towns and cities on Monday night.
  
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• Under the Stars: Photographer Captures Stunning Taurid Meteor

  27-11-2016 16:00
  
  Taurid meteors dot the sky above as a skywatcher captures the gorgeous night sky in his tent below. Astrophotographer Jeff Berkes took this image from Assateague Island National Seashore along the eastern shores of Maryland on Nov. 5. "A small group of us set out at sunset to capture the night sky and hopefully some Taurid meteors. I saw five fireballs and of couple of them fragmented across the sky." Berkes wrote in an email to Space.com.
  
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• Twinkling Stars: Skywatcher Snaps Stunning View of Pleiades Star Cluster

  27-11-2016 15:00
  
  This image is of M45, also known as the Pleiades star cluster, or the Seven Sisters. "I did not know that there are hundreds of galaxies in the same field as the Pleiades star cluster," he wrote in an email to Space.com. The Pleiades is the dominant object in this shot, but the image has hundreds of other galaxies in the field.
  
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• ‘The Glass Universe’ celebrates astronomy’s unsung heroines

  27-11-2016 14:00
  
  In “The Glass Universe,” science writer Dava Sobel shines a light on the women at the Harvard Observatory who mapped the stars.
  
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• Slippery boots: Most winter footwear fails test of walking on ice

  27-11-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A Toronto research lap has tested easily available winter boots for walking on ice and wet ice. Most of them failed to keep the testers standing.
  
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• Militants kidnap six Pakistani workers of Polish oil company

  27-11-2016 09:13
  By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Six Pakistani workers from a Polish oil and gas surveying company have been kidnapped in northwestern Pakistan, military sources told Reuters, years after a Polish engineer from the same company was beheaded by Pakistani militants. The six Geofizyka Krakow workers were snatched on Saturday afternoon from their vehicles on a road near the village of Drazinda, some 80km (50 miles) from the northwestern city of Dera Ismail Khan, two military off
  
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• 'English votes for English laws' has not given England a voice in parliament, study finds

  27-11-2016 06:00
  
  (Queen Mary University of London) 'English votes for English laws' (EVEL) has not enhanced England's voice in the UK Parliament, according a 12-month study by researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The study says that "greater attention should be paid to the challenge of enhancing England's voice in the UK parliament".
  
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• Pakistani market where women seek justice

  27-11-2016 05:57
  
  A narrow path winds through Kashmir's Valley of Pearls towards 13 tin-roofed shops hidden in a rickety row, a women-only market that doubles as a space for those seeking help against the violence of Pakistan's patriarchy.
  
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