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351. Science in the News - Monday 15 May
     15 May 2006
     Developing countries must wean themselves off oil and fossil fuels and turn as quickly as possible to solar, wind and water power if they are to avoid disastrous climate change effects and continue to develop, according to a Christian Aid report.
352. Science in the News - Friday 12 May
     12 May 2006
     A rare and reclusive African monkey discovered last year is believed to belong to an entirely new family of primates - the first such find for 83 years.
353. Science in the News - Thursday 11 May
     11 May 2006
     A French spider-eating wasp has been found for the first time in Britain. A zoologist with the Biological Records Centre said that climate change may have created good conditions for the colonist.
354. Science in the News - Wednesday 10 May
     10 May 2006
     Women can work out whether a man will make a good father just by looking at his face, according to a US study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
355. Science in the News - Tuesday 9 May
     9 May 2006
     "Scientists need an Indiana Jones image to make their subjects more popular in the classroom", argues Sir Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art.
356. Science in the News - Monday 8 May
     8 May 2006
     A study by the Ministry of Defence, released under the Freedom of Information Act, has shown that the majority of UFO sightings can be attributed to rare atmospheric conditions.
357. Science in the News - Friday 5 May
     5 May 2006
     The universe might be only the latest in a line of repeating Big Bangs stretching back almost one trillion years, according to the latest theory from cosmologists.
358. Science in the News - Thursday 4 May
     4 May 2006
     Biologists have found that one of Darwin’s Galapagos finches has begun to revert to an earlier form because of interference caused by a growing human population. The ’evolution in reverse’ study is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
359. Science in the News - Wednesday 3 May
     3 May 2006
     Mathematicians claim to have worked out how to make a cloaking device to render objects invisible, using a material called a ’superlens’. The research is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
360. Science in the News - Tuesday 2 May
     2 May 2006
     A 5,000-mile journey by the first giant turtle to be caught and tagged off the British Isles has excited scientists studying the endangered creatures.