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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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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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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Exposing plants to electric currents stimulates overproduction of biochemicals and could be a cheap way of deriving useful compounds

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