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• MONDAY 27. JUNE, 2011
• 15:34 Prehistoric BBQ Leftovers Found

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  Around 8,000 years ago, prehistoric hunters killed an aurochs and their grilling techniques were frozen in time.  

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• 15:01 Volkswagen Shows Off Auto Pilot For Cars

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  The technology allows a car to drive semi-automatically at speeds of up to 80 mph on highways.  

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• 12:37 What's in Your Pillow?

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  Dead skin cells, bugs, dead dust mites and their droppings...to name a few.  

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• SUNDAY 26. JUNE, 2011
• 21:50 Prodigal Plankton Returns to the Atlantic

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  The return of a long-lost microscopic plant to the Atlantic Ocean is another sign of a changing climate.  

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• 21:18 Abrupt Climate Change: Models of Behavior

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  Modern climate models fail to reproduce rapid climate changes in the past and so are unable to accurately project the future.  

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• 20:55 Drug Boosts Snakebite Survival Time By Half

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  Researchers in Australia showed that a class of compounds called nitric oxide donors delays the entry of toxins from potentially deadly snakebites.  

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• 20:22 British Climber Finds Six Dead in French Alps

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  Six people who died Saturday in a slide of snow and stones were found Sunday.  

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• 02:41 Physicists Observe Neutrino Quick-Change in Japan

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  There was big news on the neutrino front last week, when the Japanese T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) experiment announced the first evidence of a rare form of neutrino oscillation.  

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• SATURDAY 25. JUNE, 2011
• 14:46 Clean Swimming in a Dirty River

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  A design for a New York City pool proposes that it float on the Hudson River and filter water through its sides.  

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• 00:40 When Asteroid '2011 MD' Zips Past Earth : Animation

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  As these visualizations show, asteroid 2011 MD does battle with the Earth's gravitational field... and loses.  

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• FRIDAY 24. JUNE, 2011
• 22:47 55-Foot Beached Chinese 'Sea Monster' Identified

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  According to multiple media reports, a 55-foot-long marine animal recently washed up dead on a beach at Guangdong, China. What's this species that beach goers are calling a "sea monster"?  

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• 22:17 The Case of NASA's Contraband Sticky Tape

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  Sticky tape turned up in a Missouri auction house. NASA pounced to claim ownership. Either the agency is taking sticky tape pilfering very seriously, or something important is stuck to it.  

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• 20:57 SETI Needs YOUR Help to Catch an Alien

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  SETI has shut down its most powerful telescope through lack of funds. It's time for us to step up. What's the search for extraterrestrial intelligence worth to YOU?  

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• 20:35 Why Cigarette Warning Labels Make You Angry

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  This week Discovery News readers weigh in on the government's gruesome new cigarette labels.  

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• 19:08 Americans (Still) Prefer Boy Babies

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  It seems that the father's preference to have sons is the main factor behind the Gallop Poll finding.  

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• 18:20 INCOMING! Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday

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  Astronomer Mark Thompson reports on the large asteroid that will pass within 8,000 miles from Earth and why we were given such short notice.  

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• 17:37 Batphone App Will Record Ultrasonic Bat Sounds

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  Volunteers using the app can upload the recordings to a website to keep track of bat populations.  

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• 16:48 New Solar Plant Shines Even At Night

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  Solar power plant heats up molten salt during the day and uses the stored energy to run the plant at night.  

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• 00:45 NASA's New Mars Rover Arrives at Launch Site

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  NASA's Mars Science Laboratory arrived at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., late Wednesday for launch preparations.  

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• THURSDAY 23. JUNE, 2011
• 23:09 Freak Waves on the High Seas

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  Rogue waves likely strike when waves are running perpendicular to each other.  

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• 21:46 Tech Turns Junk Plastics into Diesel

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  Billions of tons of "end-of-life" plastics could be diverted from landfills and turned into gas for vehicles.  

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• 20:31 Dig for Pharaoh's Boat Begins

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  The boat has been hidden in a buried chamber for 4,500 years by the Great Pyramid.  

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• 20:08 Driving Triggering Left-Sided Skin Cancers?

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  Left-sided cancers occur more frequently -- likely due to exposure while driving.  

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• 20:00 Big Dinos Stayed Cool

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  It turns out huge sauropods had a similar body temperature to humans -- paleontologists thought they would have been much hotter.  

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• 19:25 Space Music: We Are Star Dust, We Are Golden

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  Robert Lamb blogs about Carl Sagan, star dust and some awesome cosmic renditions of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock."  

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