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Astronomers who won the Supernova 'lottery'
US astronomers are the first witnesses to the beginning of a supernova
How US astronomers Alicia Soderberg and Edo Berger became the first witnesses to the very beginning of a supernova. Nasa's Phoenix mission to Mars is due to touch down this week. The discovery of life in the form of single-cell prokaryotes 1.5 km below the bottom of the sea. A blow to the future of nanotechnology as a conference discusses a paper reporting carbon nanotubes may cause cancer. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ series World on the Move follows the the sociable lapwing as it returns to the Central Asian steppes.
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