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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…
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— How animals predict earthquakes — Animals may sense chemical changes in groundwater that occur…
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News | Archive (25 August 2007)

Archived news stories published on 25 August 2007 [chronologically, reverse order]
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A cosmic zoo in the Large Magellanic Cloud
A cosmic zoo in the Large Magellanic Cloud — Astronomers often turn their telescopes to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest galaxies to our own Milky…
From butterflies' wings to bank notes - how nature's colours could cut bank fraud
From butterflies' wings to bank notes - how nature's colours could cut bank fraud — Scientists have discovered a way of mimicking the stunningly bright and beautiful colours found on the wings of tropical…
NASA spacecraft burns for home, then comet
NASA spacecraft burns for home, then comet — NASA's Deep Impact/Epoxi spacecraft has successfully performed a trajectory correction manoeuvre to refine its orbit prior…
Cleveland Museum of Natural History scientist announces new horned dinosaur
Cleveland Museum of Natural History scientist announces new horned dinosaur — Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D., a scientist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, has announced the discovery of a new horned…

Spitzer Space Telescope celebrates fourth anniversary with celestial fireworks

— 01:45 GMT | Astronomy

A newly expanded image of the Helix nebula lends a festive touch to the fourth anniversary of the launch of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This spectacular object, a dying star unravelling into space, is a favourite of amateur and professional astronomers alike. Spitzer has mapped the expansive outer structure of the six-light-year-wide nebula, and probed the inner region around the central dead star to reveal what appears to be a planetary system that survived the star's chaotic death throes…

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