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Diverse Origins of Modern Man
Early human evolution involved multiple hominid species in Asia as well as Europe

Turtle Highways Discovered in the Pacific Ocean
How leatherback turtles travel long distances along mysterious migration corridors

Testing a new treatment Model for Muscular Dystrophy
A replacement found for a missing protein in muscular dystrophy in mice

Cluster Project could still Take Off
Costs of rebuilding Cluster project to probe the solar winds and magnetic weather in space

A Possible Common Vertebrate Ancestor
Could a tiny eel-like fossil creature be the ancestor of all vertebrates?

Global Surveyor Mission to Mars Launches
New space probe sets off to map the whole of Mars and carry out experiments

British Support for Claims of Life on Mars
Britons find possible evidence of life on Mars in two meteorites found in the Antarctic

Small Feathered Dinosaur Found in China
A bidpedal dinosaur with downy feathers on its back lived in China 135 million years ago

Methane Hydrate from under the Sea
Large methane hydrate deposits have been discovered on the seabed off north-west USA