First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Diamond delight
Imagine a gear only three hairs wide. Difficult? Not for Paul Christensen, president of Potomac Photonics Inc of Maryland, USA, who carved a miniscule gear into a flat diamond surface using a laser
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Making a standby sun
Physicists say it's theoretically possible to make a sun in the laboratory.
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Teak gets a saviour
An Australian tree offers wood that can replace teak for furniture
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The nature of malaria
A new project is analysing several natural parameters that aid the spread of malaria
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Birds guided by social concern
The social behaviour of a bird species found in Africa is remarkably similar human actions
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Curtain falls over aurora borealis
The aurora borealis is caused not by solar flares but by gigantic portions of the corona flowing out of the Sun
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Simulating the big blow
The charting of how poisonous gases spewing out of a volcano spread might help reduce the loss of life
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Antidote to cancer
Scientists have discovered an oestrogen derivative that controls tumours and could be effective against other diseases like arthritis
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Catch a falling planet...
...A recent discovery is the first confirmation of the long held belief that planets such as Earth may exist in other parts of the universe
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When the whales took to water
Fresh evidence supports a long held belief that whales evolved from land mammals