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<title><![CDATA[Medical students fail drug test]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Tassie devil highlights species' decline]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of animals, including the Tasmanian devil, have been added to the list of species threatened with extinction, an international report released today says.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Non-invasive test for Down syndrome]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Prostate ignorance no wee problem]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Earliest animal footprints uncovered]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have found the oldest fossilised tracks of a tiny legged animal, providing further evidence that complex creatures existed on earth 570 million years ago.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists create solar cells with a twist]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[US researchers have found a way to make efficient silicon-based solar cells that are flexible enough to be rolled around a pencil and transparent enough to be used to tint windows on buildings or cars.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA spacecraft to visit Mercury again]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Forensic spotlight cast on Bach's music]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The international forensic science community is set to examine the provocative theory that Johann Sebastian Bach's wife, Anna Magdalena, wrote some of the works attributed to the great composer.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cola, stale chip research win Ig Nobels]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA['Old-boys club' holding back innovation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Science needs to break free of its power-brokers and embrace a participatory web-based culture to boost innovation, says one expert.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What is geothermal energy?]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Eating roo may combat global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Eating kangaroo instead of cattle and sheep has been given a scientific stamp of approval by the government's top climate change adviser.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Fossil' HIV reveals virus history]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A preserved specimen of lymph node nearly half a century old has revealed how rapidly the HIV virus has diversified since the turn of the century, according to international research.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Square alarm tones could save more lives]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Smoke alarms in the home could save more lives if they used a lower-pitched square tone, say Australian researchers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ocean acidification turns up the volume]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Beyond the damage it is expected to inflict upon sensitive marine ecosystems, ocean acidification may also allow sound to travel farther underwater, creating a louder deep sea din.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Drugs get juiced-up with grapefruit]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE: We are regularly encouraged to include a decent portion of fruit in our daily diet. But Dr Karl warns those on certain medications to choose their fruit...carefully.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Windfarms 'unlikely' to threaten birds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines do not drive birds from surrounding areas, say British researchers, in findings which could make it easier to build more wind farms.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Recycling CDs and DVDs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[GREEN GURU: Large companies chuck out thousands of CDs and DVDs each year, and why not? they're so cheap! But is there a better way to deal with unwanted disks?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian kids start the week on empty]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Geldof was right - we don't like Mondays, and Australian researchers believe they've found the reason why.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smell of success in bid to 'build nose']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Development of an "artificial nose" is a step closer after US scientists reported finding a way to mass-produce smell receptors in a laboratory.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Big bubs at higher risk of breast cancer]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Baby girls who are born longer and bigger than average are more likely to develop breast cancer later in life, an international study of more than 600,000 women shows]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dinosaur's fowl breath seals tie to birds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The discovery of air sacs in a new 10-metre-long, meat-eating dinosaur may seal the connection between birds and dinosaurs and explain how birds' unique breathing system evolved, scientists say.]]></description>
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