VIDEO: Neurologist Oliver Sacks dies 82 years

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British neurologist Oliver Sacks dies aged 82

August 30, 2015 Updated at 23:37 clock put BST

British neurologist Oliver Sacks has died of cancer at the age of 82nd

He is best known for his work investigating the oddities of the human brain.

His book Awakenings, in patients with chronic insomnia, based on a play by Harold Pinter and Oscar nominated film.

David Sillito reports.

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VIDEO: The use of science to fight floods

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Storm Chasers: Scientists are trying to fight floods

August 30, 2015 Last updated at 00:03 BST clock

Flash floods could be on the rise, according to climate scientists, so it's important that they learn more about them.

Storm Chasers a flood protection system inspired by a breeze, Nick Miller BBC Weather meet a team from Newcastle University in the UK, which flooded their work.

You can read more from Nick Miller World Meteorological 30 Sunday and Monday 31 August at 10.30 clock to see on BBC News Channel

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Video: NASA team & # 039; Life on Mars & # 039; for a year

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NASA begins long isolation of the year to simulate in March on journey

August 29, 2015 Last updated at 8.59 clock GMT

A team of NASA recruits lived in seclusion for a year to simulate what would life on Mars.

Under a dome near a barren volcano in Hawaii, has the team of six people indoors without fresh air, fresh food and privacy to live.

A French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans - a pilot, an architect, a journalist and a soil scientist - the team.

Laura Bicker reported.

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VIDEO: Check-up for the orangutans Back home

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Thailand are checking for orangutans Back home

August 27, 2015 Last updated at 11:16 BST

Thailand has been conducting health checks on 14 orangutans in Indonesia for their repatriation.

It was found that the animals and confiscated five years ago in Phuket, but it's time to return home.

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VIDEO: Monbiot butchers and eats a squirrel

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George Monbiot butchers and eats a squirrel on Newsnight

August 27, 2015 Updated at 23:56 clock put BST

Asked the writer and environmentalist George Monbiot debate on social networks Thursday after she reveals cooked and eaten a squirrel after it had laid dead but still warm in the street.

When he entered the BBC study, to analyze the response to his comment, the journalist killed and skinned a dead squirrel by Moderator James O'Brien taste.

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VIDEO: Knut died of autoimmune diseases

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Knut never died of the disease in animals seen

August 28, 2015 Updated at 02:48 BST

The mystery of the death of the famous polar bear Knut, who died at the Berlin Zoo in 2011. surrounding area has been finally decided.

Millions of people were surprised when the bear four-year-old was found dead in the pit of her pregnancy after a crisis.

New research has shown that a form of autoimmune inflammation of the brain that were detected in humans.

Tim Allman reports.

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VIDEO: & # 039; Dangerous & # 039; Wal-Rescue takes two days

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The entangled whale rescue teams in Iceland icy waters

25 August 2015 Last updated 13:48 BST

Do you want to spend your weekend fighting with a whale in the icy waters of Iceland?

A team of volunteers has done just that, in attempting a whale entangled in fishing gear had to free.

Starting from a small inflatable boat, the crew of four humpback whales for two days before fixing a rope to the fishing gear and eventually continued cut.

The operation was described by one of the participating organizations considered the most dangerous kind of life they do.

Mark Stevens and Geoff hammock, co-directors of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue, the. The bailout of BBC Lucy Hockings

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