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Boffins track birds ... from Spaaaaaaaace

Endangered, not-so-angry, birds capture big data

Stanford boffins create light-powered artificial retina

Prosthetic works without batteries

Button batteries BURN KIDS FROM INSIDE

Where’s that dead CMOS battery you replaced last week?

Lasers battle cattle farts!

In other news, cows with guns

Study reveals high price of smut addiction

Severe social, relationship and legal problems hit habitual viewers

Ape Apps help Orangutans talk to people

Fondleslabs fold under simian swipes

Miniature woolly mammoths once roamed Crete

Dog-sized hippos, dumbos also wandered holiday paradise

Intelligence a genetic mistake

Badly copied genome boosted brains, kinda

Dinosaur flatulence may have warmed Earth

Sauropod emissions blow away cows, came close to modern methane volumes

Suppressed data on mutant H5N1 human-killer virus PUBLISHED

Information wants to be free

Facebook button triggers tidal wave of human organs

We're all heart. And liver, kidneys, pancreas ...

Dinosaurs were DRAINED of blood by GIGANTIC HORROR FLEAS

Huge insect bites 'like having a hypodermic shoved in'

Uni preps facility to build bionic eye chips

A fab vision for smartphones to help implants

E-health FAIL: £1.59 iPhone apps dole out drugs to kids in A&E

Stop watching Star Trek and get some blood on your screens

US doc finally fingers elusive G-spot

83-year-old corpse flashes Earth-moving button

Supernovae blasts shape climate, life on Earth, reckons boffin

'Our world's biology is reflection of the sky'

US okays release of bird flu research

Ferret-killer research deemed to have public health benefits

Higher ground: plants seeking colder temperatures

Flowers take up mountaineering

Biologists create synthetic DNA capable of EVOLUTION

Morph-happy bio-soup strained

Death Star dinosaur aliens could rule galaxy

Boffin: 'We would be better off not meeting them'

Bacteria isolated for four million years beat newest antibiotic

Ancient bacteria share genes with bugs exposed to modern medicine

Dream:ON iPhone app-maker seeks sleepy fanbois for testing

You won't feel a thing...

US ecosystems basically unaffected by global warming, studies show

Streams fail to dry up as expected at test sites

Rabid skunks attack US

Thirsty, deadly stinkers driven by drought

PLASMA GERM BLASTER GUN invented for cleaning skin

Set phaser to 'sterilise', Dr McCoy

Feathered Tyrannosaurus uncovered in China

Try getting this one into the air

Prehistoric monster snake crushed prey under 1.5 Brooklyn Bridges

BBC gets the measure of South American monster

Corny conversations prove plants 'talk'

I talk to the trees, that’s why they put me away

Sugar content now to be measured in Cadbury Creme Eggs

1 Coke = 2 choc-nugs packed with, well, whatever it is

Disappearing bees mystery: Boffins finger regicide pesticides

Buzz-buggers say neo-Nick O'Teen makes drones get lost

Exploding dinosaur theory EXPLODED

Bone botherers blast belly-burst boffinry

Harvard bio-boffins build gut-on-a-chip

Micromachine for medicine research

Lucy in 3.4 million-year-old cross-species cave tryst

New homonin fossil discovered

Sitting down all day is killing you

Get off your butt and make some tea if you want to live

Robotic surgeon successful in first prostate snip

Low-cost robot could save NHS millions

GIANT KANGAROOS wiped out by humans, not climate change

Ancient poo suggests hunters proved too tough for giant marsupials

US scientists demo hydrogen-powered robo-jellyfish

Our underwater overlords?

Facebook tracking makes for non-angry birds

Research takes off as cockatoos “Like” no-nets scheme

Horny VIKING MICE raped and pillaged Euro pipsqueaks

Tiny raiders revelled in 10th century rampages

Spider venom to be tested for pesticide potential

Boffins want to create artificial spider peptides to eliminate crop-eating bugs

Sex-starved fruit flies hit the sauce

Satisfaction equals sobriety

Mega squid use HUMONGOUS eyes to spot ravenous sperm whales

Boffins float theory on colossal creatures' eyesight

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