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LONDON (Reuters) - British wind power production reached a record high just before the New Year as storms hit the British Isles and powered onshore and offshore wind turbines, beating the previous high by nearly 20 percent, generation data showed on Friday. Wind farms produced a record 12.2 percent of UK energy demand on December 28, statistics provided by green energy association RenewableUK showed, displacing the previous record of 10 percent.

TOKYO, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Japan plans to limit the lifeof nuclear reactors to 40 years, allowing extensions only under [More]

The origins of our sexuality is the greatest mystery in human evolution. But could our prime suspect be a case of mistaken identity

The achieved cloaking was just 50 trillionths of a second, in duration, but could be extended to a few nanoseconds

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And a worse student

Ever wondered why mosquitoes eat some people up but leave others relatively unscathed?

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A scientific study to understand the impact of climate change and other factors on plant-pollinator interactions, geographic distributions and seasonal abundances [More]

“I don’t like to scare people,” says microbiologist Paul Keim. “But the worst-case scenarios here are just enormous.” [More]

Deep depression that fails to respond to any other form of therapy can be moderated or reversed by stimulation of areas deep inside the brain. Now the first placebo-controlled study of this procedure shows that these responses can be maintained in the long term. [More]

Theoretical physicist Paul Steinhardt did not expect to spend last summer travelling across spongy tundra to a remote gold-mining region in north-eastern Russia. But that is where he spent three weeks tracing the origins of the world’s only known natural example of a quasicrystal--an exotic type of structure discovered in 1982 in a synthetic material by Dan Shechtman, a materials scientist at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa who netted the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the finding.

Welcome to 2012--a leap year. The additional day in a leap year keeps the calendar in sync with the seasons.

Happy New Year! And don’t feel bad about taking today off. After all, you’ve traveled far.

As the year 2011 comes to a close, some might wonder what is looming sky-wise for 2012? What celestial events might we look forward to seeing?