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Chile volcano prompts evacuation

Saturday, 03 May 2008 06:05 BBC News

A volcano has erupted in southern Chile, scattering ash over the surrounding area and forcing more than 1,000 people to leave their homes.

The eruption of the Chaiten volcano caught local authorities by surprise, as experts say it has been dormant for at least 450 years.

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'Bizarre' new mammal discovered

Friday, 01 February 2008 17:50 BBC News
A new species of mammal has been discovered in the mountains of Tanzania, scientists report.

The bizarre-looking creature, dubbed Rhynochocyon udzungwensis, is a type of giant elephant shrew, or sengi.

The cat-sized animal, which is reported in the Journal of Zoology, looks like a cross between a miniature antelope and a small anteater.

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New York, Tokyo may follow tropical Maldives underwater

Thursday, 22 November 2007 15:18 William Pesek, Bloomberg
Wine grapes don't grow very well in the Maldives. Actually, other than coconuts and bananas, not much does.

Yet this tropical paradise has something in common with the world's oldest vineyards. Not the grapes -- the rose bushes. Vintners often surround their vines with more fragile vegetation as a kind of alarm system. If some kind of disease emerges, it will show up on the bushes on the periphery first.
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Key gene work scoops Nobel Prize

Monday, 08 October 2007 15:39 BBC News
Two US scientists and their UK collaborator have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for their groundbreaking work in gene technology. Mario Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Briton Martin Evans developed a technique known as gene targeting.

It enabled them to replicate human diseases in mice by introducing genetic changes into the animal's stem cells.

The Nobel Committee said this had led to many new insights into conditions such as cancer and heart disease.
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'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award

Friday, 05 October 2007 09:05 BBC News
Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.

Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with impotency drugs, extracting vanilla from cow dung, and the side-effects of sword swallowing.

The awards, founded in 1991, mark achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".

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