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Understanding Environmental Behaviour in the 'Black Box' of the Household

Dr Stewart Barr | Posted 23.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Environmental Policy, Corporate Responsibility, UK Environment, Environmentalism, Corporate Social Responsibility, Recycling, Environmental, Recycled Materials, Waste Management, Environment, Sustainability, Science News, Reducing Waste, UK Lifestyle News
Dr Stewart Barr

With all the investment in behaviour change campaigns and infrastructure, why is there still material that can be recycled going into the bin in our homes? Only half of all plastic bottles are currently sent for recycling, revealing a significant gap between the strong environmental values people profess and their behaviour.

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Let's Honour World Day for Animals in Laboratories - By Making It One of the Last

Mimi Bekhechi | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Peta, Peta Protest, Animal Testing, Science, Science News, Cute Animals, Animals, UK Lifestyle News
Mimi Bekhechi

Now more than ever, as animal testing is being scrutinised and debated in the public forum, animal advocates must continue to speak for those whose voices have been ignored for too long. We can win the fight against animal testing and eliminate the need to mark World Day for Animals in Laboratories ever again.

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Russian Meteor Q&A

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 15.02.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Russian Meteorite Crash, UK Space, Meteor Shower, Space News, Video, UK News, Meteorite Crash, Nakhla Martian Meteorite, Astronomy, Meteor, Chelyabinsk, Science News, News, Urals UFO, Vaadim Kolinkov, UK Tech News

After a meteor exploded over Russia today, injuring nearly 1,000 people, Dr Hugh Lewis, an astronautics expert from the University of Southampton, ans...

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Meteorite Injures Hundreds After Streaking Across Russia's Ural Mountains (VIDEO, PICTURES)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 15.02.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Russian Meteorite Crash, UK Space, Meteor Shower, Space News, Video, UK News, Meteorite Crash, Nakhla Martian Meteorite, Astronomy, Meteor, Chelyabinsk, Science News, News, Urals UFO, Vaadim Kolinkov, UK Tech News

Almost a thousand people were injured after a meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Ural mountains. Fragments of the meteor fell to the...

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Tractor Beam Tested In Real-Life

PA | Posted 27.03.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Science, Science News, Tractor Beam, Science Fiction, Lasers, Star Trek, UK Tech News

A real-life miniature version of the "tractor beam" featured in the Star Trek series has been created by a team of scientists which could be used in m...

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Warning, This Cannot Be Unseen: Enormous Parasite Filmed Slithering Out Of Dead Spider (VIDEO)

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 17.01.2013 | UK
Read More: Video, Worm Comes Out of Spider, Parasite Worm Spider, Parasites, Nematodes, Worms, Youtube, Parasitic Worm, Slidewide, Spiders, Science News, UK Weird News, Animals, UK News

A video of a live parasite unravelling itself from the carcass of a spider has clocked up over a million views on YouTube. Posted by Australia-bas...

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PICS: 12 Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs In 2012

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 19.12.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Science, Science News, UK News, Scientific Breakthroughs, UK Tech News

While 2012 was obviously a great year for sport - and not so much the economy - it was also a surprisingly strong 12 months for science. Not only ...

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Physicists May Have Created A 'New Form Of Matter'

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 27.01.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Space News, Cern, Space, UK News, Science, Matter, Science News, Large Hadron Collider, Mit, UK Tech News

Physicists have created what appears to be a new form of matter. Labelled "colour-glass condensate", it has been identified as a "swarm" of sub-ato...

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Shift Workers Face Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

Ellee Seymour | Posted 08.12.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Prof David Neal, Prof Gordon Wishart, Breast Cancer, Francis Wells, HealthScreen UK, Lung Cancer, Biomarkers, Science News, Pancreatic Cancer, UK Tech News
Ellee Seymour

I was stunned last week to learn that shift workers who work through the night face an increased risk of breast cancer. This includes our emergency services, nurses and care workers, as well as call centre and airline staff.

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Mad Cow Disease Blood Test 'A Step Closer'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 13.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Cjd, Science News, Mad Cow Disease, UK News, UK Lifestyle News, Melbourne, Blood Tests, UK Lifestyle, UK News

At the moment only examination of brain issue through a risky biopsy can determine whether someone has Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease – otherwise known a...

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'Among America's Greatest Heroes'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.08.2012 | UK
Read More: Neil Armstrong, Neil Armstrong Dead, Video, UK News, Neil Armstrong Passes Away, Neil Armstrong Dead Age 82, Neil-Armstrong-Passes-Away, Neil-Armstrong-Dead-Age-82, Neil Armstrong Dies, UK Tech, First Man on Moon Dead, Science News, Slideexpand, Neil Armstrong Death, Neil Armstrong Moon Landing, UK News

Tributes poured in from around the world to Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, who has died at the age of 82. The former Nasa astro...

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Neil Armstrong Dead At 82

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 25.08.2012 | UK
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Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died aged 82. On Saturday evening the family of Armstrong confirmed the former astronaut's death. ...

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Mysterious Arc Of Light Lurking Deep In Space Discovered

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 27.06.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Black Hole, Hologram, Big Bang, Video, Cosmology, Nasa, Multiverse, Talk Nerdy to Me, Space, Physics, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Science News, Brian Greene, Universe, UK Tech News

A mysterious, gigantic arc of light residing behind a massive cluster of galaxies has been discovered by astronomers. It resides about 10bn light y...

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Turns Out It’s NOT The End Of The World As We Know It

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 11.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Glyphs, Video, UK News, Ancient Mayan, Xultun, Guatemala, Science News, Maya, Slideexpand, Mayan Calendar, Archaeology, Mayan Glyphs, Rain Forest, UK News

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Mayan mural believed to be a calendar projecting events some 7,000 years into the future – thus contradicti...

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Parents Have Good Reason to Fear the Redefining of Autism

Thelma Etim | Posted 28.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Autism-Dsm-5, Living With Autism, UK News, Jenny McCarthy Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Dsm 5, School Services, Autism, Science News, Children With Autism, UK Politics News
Thelma Etim

The global reaction to news that a US panel of experts in psychiatry is proposing to redesign the definition of autism has been nothing short of explo...

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