Spring’s bloom may not smell so sweet anymore, as pollutants from power plants and automobiles destroy flowers’ aromas, a new study suggests.
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Pic Of The Day: Penguins
Above is a still from a very special BBC iPlayer promotion for a new BBC series Miracles of Evolution, in which film-maker and writer Terry Jones follows in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and his Voyage of the Beagle in 1831 – “a voyage which was ultimately to revolutionise the natural sciences with the publication of On The Origin Of The Species.”
The first episode “presents spectacular footage, which has never been caught on camera before, of a unique colony of Adelie Penguins as they fly thousands of miles across the frozen wasteland of Antarctica to the Amazon Rainforest.”
The full promo can be seen here on the BBC iPlayer and on here on the BBC’s You Tube Channel..
I’ve also embedded it from You Tube:
Nick Reynolds is editor, BBC Internet Blog
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Powerful marine swimmers have physical limits on their speed over and above outright strength, and bony tailed tuna have an advantage
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Kremlin Orders 3,200 Mice. No One Knows Why
It always freaks me out when Russia does something like this. Now, shrouded in secrecy, 3,200 white mice have been ordered by the Kremlin guard: the elite troops who protect President Putin. Hope the mice will be ok.
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Electroshocking plants brings chemical rewards
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Plant growth experiment starts in Columbus
ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts has activated the first experiment inside the European Columbus laboratory. The WAICO experiment, which investigates the effect of gravity on plant root growth, has started inside the module’s Biolab facility.
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Bats use same tricks as insect to fly
Bats use the same aerodynamic trick as flying insects do to stay aloft, much to the relief of scientists. By Roger Highfield.
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How roots know which way to grow
One of the great mysteries of gardening has been solved - scientists now think they know why roots manage to grow into soil and not above it. By Roger Highfield.
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UK farmers want to grow GM crops
Farmers are in favour of growing genetically modified crops in Britain despite public fears over their safety, new research has revealed.
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Master of deception’s secrets revealed
The secret of one of the greatest feats of deception in the animal world has been found, writes Roger Highfield.
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