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The tiny creatures can cover 100 miles in two daysAt just 1.5mm in size, the fig wasp is easily missed. But new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals it is a world champion among in (Read More)
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Nuclear firm Westinghouse expected to appoint Shaw Group to lead its construction programmeThousands of jobs that were to have been created in Britain to build the next generation of nuclear power plants could be heading over (Read More)
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Join a strange safari in the desert hunting, not rare animals, but an equally endangered prize – absolute silenceSeveral times each night I wake up. My first thought is usually that I am getting too old to sleep out, even in (Read More)
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How did fur, once taboo, become so acceptable – desirable even – again? Elizabeth Day investigates an ethical dilemma that goes to the heart of the fashion industry – and meets the animal rights campaigner who refuses to be d (Read More)
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Ministers refuse to release details of five incidents last yearThe government is refusing to provide details on five separate security breaches at Britain's nuclear power stations last year.The breaches have prompted accusati (Read More)
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Shady, wintry spots will soon be full of these diminutive flowers, from deepest purple to pristine whiteHardy cyclamen used to be the preserve of enthusiasts who swapped plants and seed with elaborate collectors' numbers and (Read More)
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Barbican, LondonShakespeare gets a close-up in Toneelgroep's compression of three plays – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra – a remarkable six-hour marathon played without an interval. If that sounds like a p (Read More)
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The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itselfAn academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg w (Read More)
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• US confectioner has moved thousands of jobs to Mexico in three-year restructuring• Company's intentions towards Cadbury, a potential bid target, remain unclearIt calls itself the sweetest place in America. But the home town (Read More)
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Horticulturalists, doctors and lawyers among instructors after Michigan legalises drug as a medicineIt goes without saying that there's no smoking in class. But there is a good deal of sniffing of leaves, discussion of the fi (Read More)
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Sir Howard Stringer's sweeping cuts and structural reforms have helped Sony achieve 80% of its ¥330bn savings target for this yearSony aims to finally meet its cherished profitability target in three years by staking a claim (Read More)
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Bill creates fairer energy market for consumers, says Ed MilibandThe latest energy bill is designed to help the UK move towards a low-carbon economy. It includes a £9.5bn levy on electricity suppliers to fund four demonstrati (Read More)
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The head of operations for General Motors in Europe, Nick Reilly, has spoken of his plans for maintaining car production at the Vauxhall plants in Luton and Ellesmere Port. (Read More)
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Hopes raised for car workers at Ellesmere Port and LutonGeneral Motors' new plan for Vauxhall is likely to result in significantly fewer job losses than the aborted takeover by the Magna consortium, the US car group's Europea (Read More)
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• Extinction fear as agencies halt aid to Madagascar• Loggers and poachers reverse conservation gainsThe lemur, a furry primate that symbolises Madagascar's unique biodiversity, is under renewed threat from a "timber mafia" p (Read More)
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Legislation aimed at moving Britain towards low-carbon economy and increase investment in flood defenceMoney for "clean coal", improved flood defences and tougher protection of the Antarctica wilderness are expected to be th (Read More)
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Speakers at the London conference discuss how to use Twitter, from a tweeting Tower Bridge to brands and, well, onionsThe 140 Characters conference is presenting more than 50 speakers in 35 sessions. The speeches are therefor (Read More)
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The boat was pushed out when Norway's Prince Haakon, a UN goodwill ambassador came to listen to villagers' concernsThe villagers gathered in a semicircle of plastic seats in the white sand, grateful for the shade of fig trees (Read More)
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