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UPDATE: See our latest skywatching tips to see Mars at opposition here: Mars Visible in Night Sky, But Its 2 Moons Are Hard to Spot [More]

By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine The research on which this story is based has now been published in the New Journal of Physics . [More]

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By Ed Yong of Nature magazine Two teams of scientists, led by Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have created mutant strains of H5N1 avian influenza. [More]

The world's largest oil sands producers signed an agreement yesterday to waive their intellectual property and patent rights in order to reduce the industry's impact on greenhouse gases, agriculture and waterways. [More]

Earth's building blocks were more eclectic than once thought, according to a new study suggesting our planet formed from collisions of many different types of meteorites.

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By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine When police officers, scientists and doctors launched an investigation into the scourge of counterfeit medicines in South East Asia, they were shocked to find that nearly half of the anti-malarials that they seized were fakes.

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By Eileen O'Grady (Reuters) - As the first anniversary of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster approaches, U.S.

Tens of millions of sharks are killed for their fins each year. It's not just a tragic abuse of the animals. It's bad business.

Caffeine will get you going during the day but could leave you tossing and turning at night unless you're

As Japanese officials consider whether and when to reactivate most of the country's 54 nuclear plants, a year after the Fukushima reactor disaster, they continue to face challenges to public confidence in the nuclear industry and its regulator.

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine It took years of fierce debate to winnow the dozens of potential landing sites for NASA's Mars Curiosity rover down to just one. [More]