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Fusa Miyake studied the growth rings of two trees dating back 1,200 years and discovered that an explosion of epic proportions occurred between 774 and 775AD

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Scientist Fusa Miyake from Nagoya University, Japan, studied the growth rings of two trees dating back 1,200 years and discovered that an explosion of...

Wii U console will promote the Miiverse in which users can see what others are playing, share self-created game content and swap gaming tips

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A video presentation released ahead of the E3 video games conference has showed that Nintendo's new Wii U console will embrace social networking. Wii U...

Scientists have shown that paralyzed rats have been able to walk again after their spinal cords were bathed in chemicals and zapped with electricity

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Scientists have shown that paralyzed rats have been able to walk again after their spinal cords were bathed in chemicals and zapped with electricity. An...

Milky Way and Andromeda are being pulled together by their mutual gravity and the scientists expect them to begin to merge in about four billion years' time

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Hubble Space Telescope has been used to work out on when precisely our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into its neighbor, Andromeda, astronomers announce. Milky...

Microsoft launches the most complete preview yet of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system

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Microsoft launches the most complete preview yet of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. Microsoft said that tens of thousands of improvements have been made...

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule has splashed down in the ocean off the California coast

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SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule has splashed down in the ocean off the California coast. The return to Earth completes a historic first mission to the...

Established Apple site 9to5Mac revealed a leaked image of what is claimed to be the iPhone 5

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Established Apple site 9to5Mac revealed a leaked image of what is claimed to be the iPhone 5, and the site, which has a good...

Supervolcanoes were thought to exist for as much as 200,000 years before releasing their vast underground pools of molten rock

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Supervolcanoes, the largest volcanoes on Earth, may take as little as a few hundred years to form and erupt. Supervolcanoes were thought to exist for...

The new smartphone was manufactured by the Chinese firm Gigabyte, but will be marketed under EE's Orange brand

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Everything Everywhere has unveiled the Europe's first "Intel Inside" smartphone. The San Diego handset is powered by Intel's single-core Atom Z2460 processor and runs Google's...

The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back under scrutiny as the European Parliament prepares to carry out a series of key votes

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The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back under scrutiny as the European Parliament prepares to carry out a series of key votes. ACTA seeks...

SpaceX cargo capsule Dragon returns to Earth on Thursday having spent a week attached to the International Space Station

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SpaceX cargo capsule Dragon returns to Earth on Thursday having spent a week attached to the International Space Station. The unmanned vehicle will fall through...

Doctors from St Thomas’ hospital in London are trialling "touchless" technology, often used in TV games, to help them carry out delicate keyhole surgery

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British doctors from St Thomas’ hospital in London are trialling "touchless" technology, often used in TV games, to help them carry out delicate keyhole...

Scientists have announced that a successful sequencing of the tomato genome will lead to tastier varieties within five years

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An international research team has announced that a successful sequencing of the tomato genome will lead to tastier varieties within five years. They believe that the...

Sky Broadband has decided to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay

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Sky Broadband has decided to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay (TPB). It follows Virgin Media and Everything Everywhere which have already taken...

Tuatara, a reptile living in New Zealand, has a unique way of chewing its food, say scientists who have studied its jaws in detail

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Tuatara, a reptile living in New Zealand, has a unique way of chewing its food, say scientists who have studied its jaws in detail. This...

Google announces that Chromebook and Chromebox, its computers using Chrome operating system, have been updated with faster processors

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Google announces that Chromebook and Chromebox, its computers using Chrome operating system, have been updated with faster processors. The Samsung-manufactured laptop and desktop PCs include...

Samsung signalled that it had faced issues in manufacturing blue models of the Galaxy S3

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Customers who pre-ordered new smartphone Samsung Galaxy S3 face weeks of delays in receiving their handsets. Samsung signalled that it had faced issues in manufacturing...

NASA scientists have discovered a new technique to detect osteoporosis bone loss at the earliest disease stages

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NASA scientists have discovered a new technique to detect osteoporosis bone loss at the earliest disease stages. Currently, the condition can go undetected for years...

A record radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident has been detected in Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California

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A record radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima nuclear accident has been detected in Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California. Bluefin tuna...

New reports have suggested that Facebook is to launch its own smartphone by next year

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New reports have suggested that Facebook is to launch its own smartphone by next year. The New York Times cited unnamed sources, including Facebook employees,...

Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs said they believed the malware, known as Flame, had been operating since August 2010

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Russian researchers have discovered a complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran. Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs said...

SceneTap smartphone app is receiving complaints from female bar customers after they realized the program has the potential to stalk them and send creepy guys to the locations where the most women are in abundance

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SceneTap smartphone app is receiving complaints from female bar customers after they realized the program has the potential to stalk them and send creepy...

Olympicene molecule, just over a billionth of a metre across, gets its name because its five linked rings resemble the Olympic symbol

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An international research team has succeeded in taking an amazing image of a newly synthesized molecule called olympicene. The molecule - just over a billionth...

Weibo, “China's Twitter”, has introduced a code of conduct explicitly restricting the type of messages that can be posted

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Weibo, “China's Twitter”, has introduced a code of conduct explicitly restricting the type of messages that can be posted. China's biggest microblogging service took the...

US Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites...