January 16, 2013
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Science
bbc, bbc news, Black carbon, business, carbon dioxide, climate, climate warming, climate-warming agent, Environment, Future, global warming, journal of geophysical research, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, news science, particles from diesel engines, particles from wood burning, research, research scientists, Science, science environment, Science News, soot, technology, travel, vacation, www bbc co uk
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Black carbon, or soot, is making a much larger contribution to global warming than previously recognized, according to research.
Scientists say that particles from diesel engines and wood burning could be having twice as much warming effect as assessed in past estimates.
They say it ranks second only to carbon dioxide as the most important climate-warming agent.
The research is in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.
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January 7, 2013
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Medical
bbc, bbc news, become blind, blind mice, business, degenerative eye disease, gaming, gradually lose light-sensing cells, Health, light sensing cells, medicine, mental-health, night-blind mice, quality of vision restored, research, retina, retinitis pigmentosa, Science, Science News, technology, travel, UK researchers, vacation, videogames, www bbc co uk
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The team in Oxford said their studies closely resemble the treatments that would be needed in people with degenerative eye disease.
Similar results have already been achieved with night-blind mice.
Experts said the field was advancing rapidly, but there were still questions about the quality of vision restored.
Patients with retinitis pigmentosa gradually lose light-sensing cells from the retina and can become blind.
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Totally blind mice have had their sight restored by injections of light-sensing cells into the eye, UK researchers report.
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January 7, 2013
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Medical
affected by gout, aviation, bbc, bbc news, business, climate, current-events, eight-hour operation at Leeds General Infirmary, first person in the UK, first person to have a hand transplant, Health, Mark Cahill, medicine, mental-health, nature, politics, quotes, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, West Yorkshire, who is 51, www bbc co uk
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A former pub landlord from West Yorkshire has become the first person in the UK to have a hand transplant.
Mark Cahill, who is 51, had been unable to use his right hand after it was affected by gout.
Doctors say he is making good progress after an eight-hour operation at Leeds General Infirmary.
It is still very early to assess how much control of the hand will be gained – so far he can wiggle his fingers, but has no sense of touch.
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Mark Cahill, right, can wiggle the fingers on his new hand
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December 25, 2012
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Enthralling
bbc, bbc news, celebration, climate, David Attenborough, entertainment, natural history, Natural History on BB, nature, research, Science, Science News, technology, travel, uploaded, vacation, Video, www bbc co uk
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Uploaded on Dec 9, 2011
Originally uploaded by the BBC on Dec 7, 2011 on their youtube channel: youtube.com/bbc re uploaded for everyone thats not located in the UK and can’t view it there.
A celebration of Natural History on BBC One with David Attenborough.
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December 23, 2012
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Medical
bbc, bbc news, Brain implants, business, control arm, gaming, Health, Jan Scheuermann, Lancet medical journal, news health, paralysed, paralysed from the neck down, remarkable achievement, research, robotic arm, scheuermann, Science, Science News, technology, travel, Uk News, unprecedented performance, Unrivalled control of a robotic arm, using a paralysed woman's thoughts, vacation, Woman, www bbc co uk
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Unrivalled control of a robotic arm has been achieved using a paralysed woman’s thoughts, a US study says.
Jan Scheuermann, who is 53 and paralysed from the neck down, was able to deftly grasp and move a variety of objects just like a normal arm.
Brain implants were used to control the robotic arm, in the study reported in the Lancet medical journal.
Experts in the field said it was an “unprecedented performance” and a “remarkable achievement”.
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December 23, 2012
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Medical
bbc, bbc news, better screening and treatments, business, Cancer Research UK, cancer risk factor, climate, developing cancer in their lifetime, from the current 44 in 100 chance, Health, increase to 50 out of 100, medicine, melanoma, men 1:2 chancce for cancer, next 15 years are bowel, prostate and skin (melanoma), Prostate Cancer, research, Science, Science News, skin melanoma, technology, travel, uk experts, UK experts predict more cancer in men, vacation, www bbc co uk
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Men look set to have a one in two chance of developing cancer in their lifetime, UK experts predict.
The increase to 50 out of 100, up from the current 44 in 100 chance, is largely down to people living longer – age is the biggest cancer risk factor, says Cancer Research UK.
The cancers set to increase the most in men within the next 15 years are bowel, prostate and skin (melanoma).
But more will survive cancer, thanks to better screening and treatments.
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Experts are working on better tests for prostate cancer
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December 9, 2012
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Human Interest
A 7.3-magnitude quake, bbc, bbc news, BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo, Buildings swayed violently in Tokyo, business, climate, devastating earthquake, Environment, higher ground, Japan's eastern coast, magnitude quake, Miyagi Prefecture, one-metre wave hit Ishinomaki, research, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, Science, Science News, technology, Tokyo, travel, tsunami, us geological survey, US-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, vacation, Video, wingfield, world asia, www bbc co uk
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A 7.3-magnitude quake has struck off Japan’s eastern coast, triggering a small tsunami and sparking evacuations.
A one-metre wave hit Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture and many people heeded calls to move to higher ground before all alerts were later lifted.
The quake epicentre was about 245km (150 miles) south-east of Kamiashi at a depth of about 36km, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Miyagi was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
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The BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes said he felt his building shake “violently”
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November 22, 2012
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Science
aviation, bbc, bbc news, business, coherent beam, computer, cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser, facilities the size of sports stadiums, gaming, kinetic energy into X-ray radiation, research, Science, science environment, Science News, short infrared laser pulses, sports stadiums, technology, transportation, travel, vacation, www bbc co uk, X-ray lasers, X-Rays, X-rays from a tabletop device
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An international team of scientists has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device.
Most of today’s X-ray lasers require so much power they rely on facilities the size of sports stadiums.
This has prompted efforts to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser.
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November 22, 2012
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Science
'Depraved' sex acts by penguins, bbc, bbc news, business, Captain Scott's polar team, climate, current-events, Depraved' sex acts, entertainment, gaming, George Murray Levick, Oscars, politics, research, Science, Science News, sexual coercion, technology, travel, unusual sexual activities among penguins, vacation, www bbc co uk
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Accounts of unusual sexual activities among penguins, observed a century ago by a member of Captain Scott’s polar team, are finally being made public.
Details, including “sexual coercion”, recorded by George Murray Levick were considered so shocking that they were removed from official accounts.
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November 19, 2012
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Human Interest
bbc, Bbc Jimmy Savile, bbc news, Bbc Sex Abuse Scandal, business, celebrities, climate, Daily Show, Daily Show Jon Stewart, entertainment, huffingtonpost, Jimmy Savile Bbc, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart Bbc, Jon Stewart Bbc Crisis, libya, media, Media News, politics, research, Science, Science News, technology, travel, vacation, Video, videogames, www bbc co uk
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Jon Stewart laid into the BBC on Wednesday night, quipping that the British broadcaster’s sex abuse crisis made News Corp.’s phone hacking scandal “look almost quaint.”
Last week, the director-general of the BBC George Entwistle stepped down after the program “Newsnight” wrongly accused a politician of sexual abuse. The erroneous report came soon after news broke that same program axed an investigative story outing famed British broadcaster and former BBC host Jimmy Savile as a serial child sex offender. The program aired Christmas tributes to the broadcaster instead.
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BBC director general George Entwistle stands outside BBC Broadcasting House, London,
after he announced his resignation over the “unacceptable” Newsnight broadcast which
wrongly implicated a senior former Conservative in a child abuse.
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