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Bumblebees can navigate their way home over distances of up to 13km (eight miles), a UK research team has shown. [...] The insects' "maps" also include odours, but these are limited to less than 2m (7ft).

Researchers believe they have found out why so many men with testicular cancer survive against the odds. [...] Experts at John Hopkins University say the cells are super-sensitive to body heat making them more vulnerable.

Chaykin & Moore wrote about half of the episodes of The Flash, the good half. Clever dialogue, quickly sketched memorable minor characters, and action that actually makes sense -- in one episode, The Flash attaches a fire hose to a fire hydrant and then races the water to the nozzle. The villain's character is established not by having him kill a henchman, but by having him disgusted when a henchman sticks gum under his pool table.

The book, of about 20 pages, has been dated to AD800-1000 and is the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries

The system is a way of representing individual letters of the alphabet in signals to or from ships. It is a component of the International Code of Signals.

"What's new is that even if you can learn while distracted, it changes how you learn to make it less efficient and useful," said Russell A. Poldrack, a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

A postman has been jailed for nine months after more than 34,000 unopened letters were found at his home. [...] Parkinson, 48, formerly of Hoylandswaine, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said to police officers: "I'm glad in a way - it needs sorting."

The University of California team showed that the adhesion was due to very weak intermolecular forces produced by the billions of hair-like structures, known as setae, on each gecko foot. The so-called van der Waals forces occur between molecules with different electrical charge and cause them to be attracted to one another.

The 47 million files stored in the spa town of Bad Arolsen hold meticulously recorded information on forced labourers, concentration camp victims and political prisoners. In grey, bureaucratic language the Nazis documented everything - from the number of lice on a prisoner's head to the exact moment of their execution.

The UN says the 1.5m people it feeds will more than double in a few weeks. By September, 25% of Niger's 12m people will be receiving food aid, the World Food Programme predicts.

Scientists have extracted marrow from the bones of frogs and salamanders that died 10 million years ago in the muddy swamps of north-eastern Spain.