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Published on Monday, 11 May 2009 19:00 | | 
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NASA's Kepler spacecraft has begun its search for other Earth-like worlds. The mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 6, will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for telltale signs of planets. Kepler has the unique ability to find planets as small as Earth that orbit sun-like stars at distances where temperatures are right for possible lakes and oceans. READ MORE
Published on Sunday, 10 May 2009 19:00 | |
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Fancy a bite of these yummy marzipan babies?
Published on Saturday, 09 May 2009 19:00 | | |
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I live in a tree-starved street off the King’s Road in central London, writes Julia Stephenson.
The area is full of shoe shops, clothes shops and estate agents, but despite our fancy post-code we are desperately short of trees.
But this may soon change, for Mayor Boris Johnston has just unveiled a plan to ensure that arboreally deprived boroughs like mine will be the happy recipient of the 10,000 trees he has pledged to plant in London.
For details of how to can suggest a tree is planted in your street click here.
Published on Friday, 08 May 2009 19:00 | |
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Holistic doctor Frank Lipman believes we’re in the grip of
an exhaustion epidemic and offers some valuable tips on how to re-energise.
Published on Thursday, 07 May 2009 04:50 | | |
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I started to practise Nichiren Buddhism in 2001 while on a yoga retreat in Turkey, writes Clea Myers.
The galvanising factor was the generous spirit of my new yoga instructor who had invited me on the retreat in the first place. Her energy was highly attractive and unlike other experiences with yoga groups, her attitude was wholly inclusive, warm and uncompetitive.
One morning over fresh fruit and yoghurt she told me about Nichiren Buddhism. A sense of recognition overwhelmed me because the basic tenets fitted with my own perceptions and beliefs about life.
Published on Tuesday, 05 May 2009 19:00 | | |
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In a recent interview on Australian radio, Jake Lynch, former BBC newsman and a leading international proponent of peace journalism, explains the thinking behind this radical approach.
Published on Monday, 04 May 2009 19:00 | | |
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ESO's Very Large Telescope has shown that a faint gamma-ray burst detected last Thursday is the signature of the explosion of the earliest, most distant known object in the Universe (a redshift of 8.2).
The explosion apparently took place more than 13 billion years ago, only about 600 million years after the Big Bang.