VIDEO: Giant Jellyfish 20 kg in Cornwall

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Filmed 20 kg giant jellyfish off the coast of Cornwall

June 29, 2014 Last updated at 15:34 BST clock

A huge cannon jellyfish swim spotted in an estuary near St Mawes Cornwall.

Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine sensitizer Matt Slater and his dog swam to the jellyfish to capture these images.

Medusa is said to weigh up to 20 kg and measure about one meter in diameter.

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Video: NASA technology tested landing on Mars

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NASA is testing the technology for landing on Mars

June 29, 2014 Last updated at 18:40 BST clock

The U.S. space agency NASA has successfully tested a form of spacecraft flying saucer that could help scientists plan future missions to Mars.

It is expected that this system will help to understand how hard landing craft and even astronauts on the Red Planet.

Informa Denise Hammick.

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VIDEO: Production of solar cells with salt tofu

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The production of solar cells tofu salt

June 26, 2014 Last updated at 09:48 BST

A new type of solar cells could reduce the cost of the production of energy from the sun significantly.

A team from the University of Liverpool has found a way found to replace the toxic element found in the process of a material in bath salts and tofu.

The study was published in the journal Nature and presented at the ESOF conference in Copenhagen.

Lead researcher Dr. Jon Major explains how the new technology could significantly reduce the cost of solar energy.

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AUDIO: New award, show the importance of mathematics

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New Price "is the importance of mathematics for"

June 23, 2014 Last updated at 13:03 BST

The Breakthrough Award Foundation announced the first five winners of the prize in mathematics, which paid $ 3 million.

Yuri Milner Entrepreneur, co-founder of the award, and the author explains how Rob East Away expect the price to emphasize the importance of mathematics in the modern world.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 's Today program Monday, June 23

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VIDEO: When bees swarm: Who you gonna call?

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Swarm Team DC keeps bees away - without killing

June 25, 2014 Last updated at 00:13 BST clock

If you have a swarm of bees swarming in the city see to be called?

If you are in Washington DC, an appeal to the DC Beekeepers Alliance convenes a trained beekeeper ready to safely capture the bees and they find a new home in a community garden or on the roof of the hive.

The United States will increasingly urbanized bees while the nation will disappear by colony collapse. In homing bees swarm, DC Alliance may beekeepers to protect bees, both for the city of success and feel more natural.

The BBC spoke to beekeepers and the inhabitants of the city, the unexpected commonality found in the bees.

Produced by the BBC and by Colm O'Molloy Kate Dailey. Filmed and edited by Colm O'Molloy

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VIDEO: Mountain criticized the construction of the telescope

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Criticized mountain build huge telescope

June 20, 2014 Last updated at 02:05 BST clock

The top of a mountain of 3000 meters (10,000 feet) blew in Chile, to make room for larger optical and infrared telescope in the world.

One million tons of rock were destroyed in order to create a flat surface on which to build a European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).

The heart will be a mirror that is half the size of a football field.

Rebecca Morelle information.

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VIDEO: Leonardo DiCaprio: Eco-Warrior

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The role of Leonardo DiCaprio as an eco-warrior

June 19, 2014 Last updated at 11:19 BST

Leonardo DiCaprio has said he will donate $ seven million to clean up the oceans.

Hollywood actor and environmentalist made the pledge while addressing the conference Our State Department U.S. Ocean.

This coincided with the announcement of the new efforts of President Barack Obama to parts of the Pacific Ocean, which are controlled by the United States to protect.

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VIDEO: Flood victims: Put your money where your mouth is

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Floods in the UK: The government should "money where their mouth is, is"

June 17, 2014 Last updated at 10:23 BST

The MPs say the government has its priorities wrong expenses from flooding this winter in England and Wales.

The Committee Environment, Commons said enough money for dredging disposal and financing is always "at least".

Sue Sayer flooded house in Finland this year for the second time. She said the government should listen to the selection committee.

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VIDEO: Can you teach a dolphin to speak?

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New documentary is the woman who spoke dolphins

June 17, 2014 Last updated at 13:37 BST clock

50 years ago, a young researcher spent months living with a dolphin named Peter, in the context of a revolutionary experiment to try to teach the animal to learn to speak.

The interaction between the two of them were recorded in thousands of roles to bands that are now part of the documentary filmmaker Christopher Riley role.

Riley told BBC Breakfast about the girl who spoke to dolphins.

The girl who spoke with the dolphins, BBC Four, 21 hours, 17 June

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Camera Specifications for the visually impaired: VIDEO

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Camera glasses you can see the visually impaired

June 17, 2014 Last updated on 00:36 BST

Researchers at Oxford University say they have made a breakthrough in the development of "intelligent" for people with severe loss of glasses.

You plan the best pictures of people and objects near the lens and provides a much clearer picture of your environment idea.

The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB), said that the glasses can be very important.

Adam Brimelow Health Correspondent BBC takes a closer look.

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VIDEO: Video Capture eruption of Mount Etna

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Mount Etna eruption closes airport

June 16, 2014 Last updated at 13:40 BST clock

A new eruption of Etna eruption forced the closure of Catania airport in Sicily.

Watch videos spewing lava and ash of the busiest in Europe Sunday crater south.

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VIDEO: Astronauts football to show their talents

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World Cup: the astronauts of the Space Station show their football talents

June 12, 2014 Last updated at 04:25 BST clock

Astronauts on the International Space Station showed his talent as a football World Cup is in Brazil.

German astronaut Alexander Gerst and U.S. Weisman Reid and Steve Swanson sent their wishes good luck to the team and showed that weightlessness has to enjoy no barrier, "the beautiful game".

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Banned "solar flares of class X on film: VIDEO

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"I banned X-class solar flares on film

June 11, 2014 Last updated at 20:55 BST clock

Images from NASA shows the Sun releasing two "important" solar flares Sunday.

Goddard Space Center, NASA said the eruptions were classified as "Class X", which is the most intense class.

NASA says solar flares are not a direct threat to the country, but very intense signals may interfere with other communication and GPS.

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VIDEO: Sticky Sex legs help aquatic Coleoptera

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Sticky legs help aquatic Coleoptera Sex

June 11, 2014 Last updated at 12:27 BST

Scientists at the National Chung Hsing shown University in Taiwan, such as a diving beetle clung for underwater.

Images shown in the micro-scale, such as hair on the legs of the male beetles give women with small suction cups.

And light on the evolution on a very small scale, their understanding could inspire the design of the submarine fasteners in mechanical engineering.

This video, filmed by the researchers shows exactly how beetles significantly evolved legs stick to the body of a woman.

Video courtesy of Kai-Jung Chi, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

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See Polar Bear Eye of life in the Arctic: VIDEO

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Polar Bear "made" their own video Arctic

June 8, 2014 Last updated at 11:27 BST

The U.S. Geological Survey in the Beaufort Sea near Alaska - has the first pictures of video filmed'''' never published by a polar bear.

The bear in a special camera images to her neck as part of a study to determine how threatened species caught attributed to respond to the loss of sea ice

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AUDIO: What struggles have shaped the human face

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Male faces "developed" because of the struggles

June 9 2014 Last updated at 12:01 BST

Human males have developed strong facial features to protect against fighting, according to scientists.

Research at the University of Utah found that the bones of the face of the first bipedal apes australopithecines were to be later taken most likely in the areas.

Professor David carrier, the evolutionary biologist who led the study, said the features were as the need developed that increase men to fight.

He told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast : "There was a lot going on fighting ... The males compete for females, but males probably national defense."

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VIDEO: Why koalas hug trees on hot days

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Why koalas hug trees on hot days

June 4, 2014 at 00:05 clock Last updated BST

Allows koalas hug trees to keep you cool, a study revealed.

In a study published in the Royal Society Biology Letters , the researchers used thermal imaging cameras to show that hot weather animals to cooler lower parts of the trees.

They have also emphasized in his body even closer to the trunks of trees.

Here Dr. Michael Kearney, University of Melbourne describes how koalas to hug trees to regulate their temperature.

Still images courtesy of Briscoe N, S, and K Griffiths Handasyde

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VIDEO: New "recycling digestive system

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"Recycling to feed reinstalling digestive household food

June 3 2014 Last updated at 16:33 BST

Soon, thousands of tons of food waste is used to provide power to homes in South London and Surrey.

A new recycling plant opens multi-million pound, near Chertsey - take food waste from households and businesses - and use it to generate electricity from renewable sources.

Journalist Tom Edwards.

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VIDEO: Sandstorm Freak meets Tehran

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Freak sandstorm hits Tehran

June 2, 2014 at 17:38 clock Last updated BST

A strong winds and sandstorms records have killed several people in Tehran, capital of Iran, dipping into the darkness.

The buildings were damaged and debris mass disturbances and falling heavily through the trees in the streets.

State media reported 110 kmh (70 mph) wind.

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VIDEO: A look at the faces of our ancestors

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Genetic Genealogy: Find the face of our ancestors DNA

June 3 2014 Last updated at 00:15 BST clock

Today everyone can look online to find out who our ancestors, and soon hope geneticists that DNA can also show their faces.

Mark Shriver, professor of anthropology and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Peter Claes, University of Leuven in Belgium, four years worked in the genetics of facial features which., The relationship between genetic sequences, facial features and skin tones means

You have enough to the genotype data to reconstruct the DNA of a grandmother and an estimate of the surface based grandchildren.

Professor Shriver is convinced that in two years, the idea is to see the faces of our grandparents no longer science fiction.

The BBC filmed, as Professor Shriver tested volunteers at the Historical Society of New York at the World Science Festival to see genes as Genealogy second favorite pastime of Americans, is changing.

Produced by the BBC Anna Bressanin

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VIDEO: SpaceX capsule presents human

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SpaceX has a human space capsule Dragon V2

May 30 2014 Last updated at 10:31 BST

SpaceX has filed a reusable space vehicles, they will be able to take from anywhere on Earth and to country, "like a helicopter."

The seven-seat Dragon V2 is fitted with engines and legs to the side, fitted to allow him to land vertically.

Since his retirement, NASA space shuttle fleet, three years ago, the U.S. space agency has to rely on Russian spacecraft to fly its astronauts into space.

The Californian company obtained with other companies competing for contracts from NASA.

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It is expected that climate change will cause flash floods: VIDEO

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That climate change is more flash floods causing UK

June 1, 2014 Last updated at 19:58 BST clock

The Met Office has issued a warning of flash floods in the summer because of climate change.

A report said that while it was assumed that dry summers in the following century, heavy rains mean more frequent flooding.

Claire Marshall reports.

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