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Cats could be more harmful to birds than previously suspected, scientists have discovered. Bastards. (The cats, I mean.) - Richard Carter, FCD

When the Dutch cloth merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked at a drop of pond water through his home-made microscope in the 1670s, he didn’t just see tiny ‘animals’ swimming in there. He saw a new world: too small for the eye to register yet teeming with invisible life. - Richard Carter, FCD

Citing wavering strength of mind and body, Pope Benedict XVI announced his decision to resign from the papacy at the end of February. He will be the first pope to abdicate in nearly six centuries. - Richard Carter, FCD

A walk on the wild side: beneath the Peak District in Derbyshire lies a web of caves and streams. Robert Macfarlane plucks up his courage and takes the plunge From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, January/February 2013 There were many reasons not to go underground that day. - Richard Carter, FCD

One day 25,000 years ago at a place now called Kostenki on the river Don in Russia, someone prepared a section of mammoth ivory and began to work it into the shape of a pregnant woman. - Richard Carter, FCD

When Hurricane Sandy's siege of New York last autumn was quickly followed by waves of marauding floods in Britain, the closing acts in a year of numbing gloom and damp, the idea of "global warming" began to sound like a rather black joke. - Richard Carter, FCD

Technically we know that within four weeks the brimstones will emerge and in three the first queen bumblebees will sway low across the turf as they hunt for nest sites. But for now all is gridlocked in this strange south wind. - Richard Carter, FCD

Bone and vascular structures running along the neck prevent owls from choking themselves. - Richard Carter, FCD

A controversial 80ft wind turbine has collapsed after being hit by heavy winds. - Richard Carter, FCD

via RSPB. - Richard Carter, FCD

via RSPB. - Richard Carter, FCD

"Exactly. What a load of nonsense that was too." - Richard Carter, FCD

"Torygraph in EU Scare-Story Shock!" - Richard Carter, FCD

"I've been subscribed to Scripting News since 2001. I'm sorry, but I'm not prepared to drill down to read full stories. Thanks for all the interesting content over the years, but I'm in unsubscribing." - Richard Carter, FCD

Experts say more research is needed into a disease spread by cats after figures show an estimated 350,000 people a year in the UK become infected with toxoplasmosis. - Richard Carter, FCD

Experts say more research is needed into a disease spread by cats after figures show an estimated 350,000 people a year in the UK become infected with toxoplasmosis. - Richard Carter, FCD

A recent lecture by Prof Greg Radick questions our scientific inheritance, through textbook histories of genetics and Thomas Kuhn's legacy. - Richard Carter, FCD

A recent lecture by Prof Greg Radick questions our scientific inheritance, through textbook histories of genetics and Thomas Kuhn's legacy. - Richard Carter, FCD

The preferred site for a controversial electricity substation in Powys and the route for over 100 high voltage pylons will be unveiled later. Opponents say the substation and the pylons, to service wind farms, will disfigure the countryside. - Richard Carter, FCD

The preferred site for a controversial electricity substation in Powys and the route for over 100 high voltage pylons will be unveiled later. Opponents say the substation and the pylons, to service wind farms, will disfigure the countryside. - Richard Carter, FCD

New research shows industrial and traffic noise in urban environments affects communication and makes chicks less likely to be fed. - Richard Carter, FCD

The crew of HMS Beagle held their own ‘Olympic Games’ at Port Desire, Patagonia, on Christmas Day, 1833. - Richard Carter, FCD

The crew of HMS Beagle held their own ‘Olympic Games’ at Port Desire, Patagonia, on Christmas Day, 1833. - Richard Carter, FCD

Well, it's about bloody time someone built them! - Richard Carter, FCD

Well, it's about bloody time someone built them! - Richard Carter, FCD

Docking Shoal scheme shelved and £10m wasted on the £1.5bn wind power project. - Richard Carter, FCD

Docking Shoal scheme shelved and £10m wasted on the £1.5bn wind power project. - Richard Carter, FCD

Along a strip 300 yards wide, the trees have been ripped out, leaving nothing but stumps and bare, scarred earth. It looks like the Space Shuttle has crashed into the hillside – except that it stretches into the distance farther than you can see. - Richard Carter, FCD

All down to genetics. - Richard Carter, FCD

"- Allow users to export their subscriptions to OPML - (For mobile clients) Have a car-friendly option to simplify the interface when driving (bigger buttons, disable auto-screen-rotate, etc). [Yes, I know people shouldn't operate mobile devices in cars, but they do.]" - Richard Carter, FCD