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Imagine Sam Weller Widdowson in 1874, using cricket pads for soccer. His makeshift shin guards were a mix of creativity and ...

A prehistoric sea predator had better vision than most of its modern descendants, scientists have discovered. Fossilised eyes of the giant shrimp-like Anomalocaris have been found by palaeontologists ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences report that aftert ten years, introduced tortoises served as ''effective seed dispersers'' for regrowing an endangered tree ...

An 18 month investigation has uncovered UK firms dumping thousands of tonnes of illegal e-waste in west Africa. Instead of recycling old computers, PCs, printers, telephones, mobile phones and stereos ...

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Research in 2009 showed that synthetic pheromones could trap sea lampreys. Now, brands use “donor pheromones” to attract ...

Plate tectonics has been on the curriculum for a while now. Most people are fairly familiar with the theory; the Earth's crust - or lithosphere - is broken up into different plates which move around ...