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20 October 2012 Last updated at 15:17 ET

Mars rover starts 'to eat dirt'Sample tray

Nasa's Curiosity rover has ingested its first Martian soil sample to analyse its composition in one of the robot’s two big onboard analytical tools.

Rain showers in PortsmouthUK experiences 'weirdest' weather

The UK has just experienced its "strangest" weather on record, scientists have confirmed.

Painted Lady butterfly on a flowerButterfly migration mystery solved

The mysterious annual disappearance of a UK butterfly has been solved, scientists say after tracking the painted lady's migration route on radar. BBC Nature

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Nobel for work on cell's secrets

14:48 UK time, Wednesday, 10 October 2012

The mystery of how our cells respond to everything from taste to light to hormones like adrenalin is the subject of this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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