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The Falcon has taken off

SpaceX Dragon roars at last

Ape Apps help Orangutans talk to people

Fondleslabs fold under simian swipes

Papua New Guinean tongue saved from extinction?

Recently deceased language preserved online

Red faces abound as boffins build gamma ray lens

Focusing on targets near and far

Billion-dollar high-tech ghost town to run itself without humans

Uninhabited 'smart city' will be boffins' playground

Miniature woolly mammoths once roamed Crete

Dog-sized hippos, dumbos also wandered holiday paradise

Let’s send 3D printers TO THE MOON

Sci-Fi fuelled big ideas group wants “moonshot ecosystem”

NASA spots the light of a ‘super-Earth’

Spitzer space ‘scope serves up surprise

Google's self-driving car snags first-ever license in Nevada

Gambling state lets Google spin its wheels

Solar quiet spell like the one now looming cooled climate in the past

Vast fireball as big as a million Earths does affect us

Planet systems with 'hot Jupiters' PULVERISE innocent strays

Should help boffins narrow search for Earthlike second home

Boffins baking big-data single chip architecture

Graphene, electrons and the end of 'conventional silicon electronics'

Old-school Mars rover water findings confirmed

Veteran machine to resume work as summer approaches

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

US gov boffins achieve speeds FASTER THAN LIGHT

'Loophole' found in Special Theory of Relativity

Greenland glaciers not set to cause disastrous sea level rises - study

Another blow for hippy doomsayers

Germans hail Vulture 1 spaceplane

Die Zeit gets cosy with PARIS

China considers energy cap

Climate change makes energy reductions “inevitable”, say officials

Princeton solar researchers take leaf from plants’ book

Rough surfaces better at capturing sunlight

Suppressed data on mutant H5N1 human-killer virus PUBLISHED

Information wants to be free

Crazy old black hole's X-ray ultra-belch makes galaxy blush

Space telescope sniffs outburst more powerful than MILLION Suns

UK's new drivers now in safe hands... of laser-wielding robots

Credit-card chip biz promises 80m non-forgeable licences

European Space Agency heads for Jupiter's moons

JUICE mission will inspect Europa, Callisto and Ganymede

Black hole swallows star in GALACTIC SUPER-GUZZLE!

Astroid-gazing telescope catches distant star flare-out

Facebook button triggers tidal wave of human organs

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

How politicians could end droughts FOREVER: But they don't want to

AnalysisThey'd rather ration your water than do some simple sums

Dinosaurs were DRAINED of blood by GIGANTIC HORROR FLEAS

Huge insect bites 'like having a hypodermic shoved in'

Moon at annual perigee this weekend

No need to duck, panic, batten down for mega-tides

Intergalactic speed demon stars bid Milky Way farewell

Down and out after black hole close encounter

Uni preps facility to build bionic eye chips

A fab vision for smartphones to help implants

Boffins bone up on rover skills as Curiosity speeds to Mars

100-day countdown to touchdown

Astronomers provide new estimate for neutrino mass

WiggleZ in the space-time continuum

SpaceX test-fires Falcon 9 rocket as Dragon sleeps

Launch rescheduling confirmed for 7 May

LOHAN enjoys a silicone lightbulb moment

Cracks hypobaric chamber seal

Boffins cross atom-smasher streams, 'excited' beauty pops into being

Like Weird Science on a sub-atomic scale

Wind farms create local warming

Turbines stir things up

Study finds water cycle accelerating with warming

Wet gets wetter, dry gets drier

Shuttle Enterprise comes home to New York

Buzzing the Big Apple

Gigantic lava spirals wreck Mars ice valley theory

Student goes looking for water, finds yet more rock

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