Will the Great Barrier Reef be gone in 35 years? and other top stories.

• Will the Great Barrier Reef be gone in 35 years?

  

  One of the world’s seven natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef contains some 900 islands and 3,000 smaller reefs. It is larger than the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland combined, home to around 10% of the world’s marine fish, over 200 bird species and countless other animals, including turtles and dolphins. But this iconic reef system is facing unprecedented threats. Together with governments, scientists are playing a key role in the battle t..

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• Stars vacuum cosmic dust to clean universe

  

  Stars vacuum cosmic dust to clean universe

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• Insecticide likely cause of mutant frogs

  

  Insecticide likely cause of mutant frogs

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• Scientists Develop Injectable Biomaterial with Nanoscale Sponge Particles

  

  In “Fantastic Voyage”, the campy 1966 science fiction movie, a team of scientists miniaturized a submarine with themselves inside and passed through the body of one of their team members in order to break up a highly dangerous blood clot. A part from ...

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• China eyes hunt for alien life with giant telescope

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. World's largest telescope dish A timelapse of workmen building the world's largest single-span telescope dish, designed by CSIRO and The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. PT0M29S 620 349 Beijing: China has hoisted the final piece into position on what will be the world's largest radio telescope, which it will use to explore space and help in the hunt for extraterrestrial life, state media said.The five-hundr..

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• After Paris, UK's latest 'carbon budget' just isn't ambitious enough

  

  A major new climate policy was announced by the UK government on June 30, almost unnoticed in the Brexit aftermath. The media’s focus on Westminster backstabbing meant the country’s latest “carbon budget”, widely heralded as unambiguously good news for the environment, hasn’t had the scrutiny it deserves. The “Fifth Carbon Budget” effectively commits the UK to reducing emissions by 57% from 1990 levels by sometime between 2028 and 2032. These budgets serve as five-year “stepping stones” towards..

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• You've 'probably' eaten cloned meat

  

  Synthetic meat: future food7:20Tomorrow's meal is found in a lab, not a pasture. Ian Goodqin, vice dean of UNE, Armidale, NSW, school of rural science and natural resources with dolly the wonder sheep going through her paces on the treadmill.TWO decades after Scotland’s Dolly the sheep became the first cloned mammal, consumers may well wonder whether they are drinking milk or eating meat from cookie-cutter cows or their offspring.The simple answer: “probably”.The fact is, there is no way to kno..

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