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Space enthusiasts from the UK have succeeded in sending a shortcrust pie over 29 miles above the ground.
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A warning has gone out to motorists to beware of moose licking the salt off the side of their cars.
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A large hole in the King Baudoin ice shelf has challenged what we know of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
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Professor Stephen Hawking has teamed up with NASA to design and develop an interstellar nano-starship.
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Scientists have put together a reconstruction of what the famous Scottish king would have looked like.
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Scientists at Princeton University have simulated what an English-speaking macaque would sound like.
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Scientists have confirmed that the experimental machine is operating with 'unprecedented accuracy'.
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A strange-looking invertebrate has been spotted by a deep-sea ROV over a century after its discovery.
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Richard Branson's fledgling space tourism firm is back on track following a fatal crash two years ago.
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The Apollo 11 astronaut fell ill just after becoming the oldest person ever to visit the South Pole.
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A groundbreaking new study suggests that scientists have underestimated the impact of climate change.
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Dino-a-Live will offer visitors the next best thing to real dinosaurs without the risk of being eaten.
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It is looking increasingly likely that the dwarf planet is home to a vast subterranean ocean of water.
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There are plans to build an ambitious new space station around the Moon within the next two decades.
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A surveillance plane has been looking in to reports of a 'pinging' sound in the Fury and Hecla Strait.
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NASA's Curiosity rover has taken a closer look at an odd-looking meteorite lying on the surface of Mars.
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Scientists have revisited the classic Mary Shelley novel to find out what it teaches us about extinction.
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The fast food chain decided to have a dig at its rival as part of its celebration of Halloween this year.
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If things don't change soon the ongoing decline is likely to reach two-thirds by the end of the decade.
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A team of designers from the Netherlands have somehow managed to reinvent the humble staircase.