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A skeleton found in car park is that of King Richard III.....

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-21063882

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Meteor strike in Russia 'a rare event' : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21469677

Pictures: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21475858

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Also reverse bhaia. the Pope stepped down.

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Jessica Cox: Pilot born without arms on flying with her feet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21377627

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Rodent Mind Meld: Scientists Wire Two Rats’ Brains Together

It’s not exactly a Vulcan mind meld, but it’s not far off. Scientists have wired the brains of two rats together and shown that signals from one rat’s brain can help the second rat solve a problem it would otherwise have no clue how to solve.

The rats were in different cages with no way to communicate other than through the electrodes implanted in their brains. The transfer of information from brain to brain even worked with two rats separated by thousands of kilometers, one in a lab in North Carolina and another in a lab in Brazil.

“We basically created a computational unit out of two brains,” says neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University, who led the study.

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