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McDonald's recalls Shrek glasses due to potential cadmium risk — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced…
Hogchoker - the new Internet star — A small flatfish living along the coast of North America is the…
Cancer deaths are projected to double by 2030 — Cancer deaths are projected to double in the next two decades.…

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Wasps clock faces like humans — Face recognition in golden paper wasps may be an adaptation to…
Entangled diamonds vibrate together — Objects big enough for the eye to see have been placed in a weirdly…
How animals predict earthquakes — Animals may sense chemical changes in groundwater that occur…
New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact — Hundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers there…

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News | Archive (20 December 2007)

Archived news stories published on 20 December 2007 [chronologically, reverse order]
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Asteroid belt mystery
Asteroid belt mystery — The main asteroid belt may have been restructured by the giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, as they migrated to their present…
Devonian embryos and the origin of internal fertilisation in vertebrates
Devonian embryos and the origin of internal fertilisation in vertebrates — A paper, published in the current issue of Nature (available online 25 February 2009) provides new evidence of reproduction…
Watching Venus glow in the dark
Watching Venus glow in the dark — ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has observed an eerie glow in the night-time atmosphere of Venus. This infrared light comes…
San Diego Supercomputer Centre completes major storage upgrade
San Diego Supercomputer Centre completes major storage upgrade — The San Diego Supercomputer Centre (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has completed a comprehensive upgrade…

Beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs

— 19:44 GMT | Biology

Most modern-day groups of beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have been diversifying ever since, says new research out in Science. There are approximately 350,000 species of beetles on Earth, and probably millions more yet to be discovered, accounting for about 25% of all known life forms on the planet…

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