Dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years but were wiped out within days by a massive asteroid, scientists said yesterday.

The asteroid, the size of the Isle of Wight, smashed into the Earth at Chicxulub, Mexico, with a force one billion times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.

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Here are some amazing images and films taken from deep inside the heart which reveal some of the very latest heart research.

Scientists across the UK being funded by the British Heart Foundation were challenged to submit fascinating images and video representing their fields of research.

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Global warming is full of uncertainties and the public is right to be confused, scientists admitted today.

Three leading UK climate scientists braved the lion’s den of a media briefing at the Science Media Centre in London to talk about the state of climate science following the recent furore over emails at the University of East Anglia, witholding of facts, and evidence in the IPCC report wrongly saying Himalayan glaciers would have completely melted away by 2035.

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Global warming is full of uncertainties and the public is right to be confused, scientists admitted today.

Three leading UK climate scientists braved the lion’s den of a media briefing at the Science Media Centre in London to talk about the state of climate science following the recent furore over emails at the University of East Anglia, witholding of facts, and evidence in the IPCC report wrongly saying Himalayan glaciers would have completely melted away by 2035.

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It’s just 50 days to the next Big Bang science fair being held in Manchester.

I went to last year’s London event and was really impressed by the sheer excitement that was generated.

It raises the question which often puzzles people in the UK: If schoolchildren can get so excited by science how come they don’t take it on into careers?

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Two years ago I travelled to Agra in India to visit the biggest bear sanctuary in the world.

The park offers a peaceful life to former dancing bears and snatched bear cubs allowing them to live with each other with at least some comfort.

The park is part of a project to clear illegal dancing bears from the streets of India.

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Two years ago I travelled to Agra in India to visit the biggest bear sanctuary in the world.

The park offers a peaceful life to former dancing bears and snatched bear cubs allowing them to live with each other with at least some comfort.

The park is part of a project to clear illegal dancing bears from the streets of India.

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Here is a statement from the Royal Society, the premier science body in the UK, on Copenhagen and Climate Change.

I am publishing it here because it would not normally get a wider airing and it clears up some confusions and answers quite a few of the questions that are sent in to The Mirror.

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It’s a multi-billion pound fight over the future of our planet.

On the one side is the vast climate change industry meeting in Copenhagen.On the other are the climate sceptics who claim the scientists have got it wrong.

The lives of millions of people as well as our children and grandchildren are riding on the result.

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It’s a multi-billion pound fight over the future of our planet.

On the one side is the vast climate change industry meeting in Copenhagen.On the other are the climate sceptics who claim the scientists have got it wrong.

The lives of millions of people as well as our children and grandchildren are riding on the result.

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