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height="84" alt="Limitless 2"/> </a> <p class="trail-text"> <span class="kicker"> </span> Suggest a scientific theme for one of the short sci-fi films that will be created during Sci-Fi London's 48-hour filmmaking challenge </p> <ul class="sublinks"> <li class="bullet last"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/mar/09/science-fiction-film" class="link-text"> Your chance to put the science into sci-fi</a> </li> </ul> </li>  <li> <p class="strap"> Alan Pickup's Starwatch </p> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/11/starwatch-venus-western-night-sky" class="link-text">Venus on a 147 year high</a> </h3> <p class="trail-text"> <span class="kicker"> </span> Nothing in the current night sky can compare with the spectacle being played out in our western evening sky </p> <a 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src="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2012/3/8/1331222530824/Cyrtopodion-kiabii.-003.jpg" width="140" height="84" alt="Cyrtopodion kiabii."/> </a> <p class="trail-text"> <span class="kicker"> </span> This tiny angular-toed gecko was found in adandoned buildings, writes <strong>Quentin Wheeler</strong> </p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/11/new-nature-cyrtopodion-kiabii-wheeler#start-of-comments" class="trail-comment-count comments-open" short-url="-p-363dp" style="display:none"><span class="comment-count-val"></span></a> </li>  <li> <p class="strap"> Science journalism debate </p> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/mar/06/scientists-journalists-science-discuss" class="link-text">Scientists and journalists need different things from science. Discuss</a> </h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/mar/06/scientists-journalists-science-discuss" data-link-name="anchor image" class="link-image "> <img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/3/6/1331041861280/An-archetypal-journalist-005.jpg" width="140" height="84" alt="An archetypal journalist"/> </a> <p class="trail-text"> <span class="kicker"> </span> A meeting at the Royal Institution in London on Tuesday 13 March will bring scientists and journalists together to discuss how their respective professions can improve science reporting </p> <ul class="sublinks"> <li class="bullet"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/mar/07/scientists-help-improve-science-journalism" class="link-text"> Nine ways scientists can help improve science journalism</a> </li> <li class="bullet"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/mar/06/science-journalists-questions-exaggeration" class="link-text"> Ananyo Bhattacharya: Science journalists should be asking questions and deflating exaggeration</a> </li> <li class="bullet last"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2012/mar/06/2" class="link-text"> Martin Robbins: "Scientists say..."</a> </li> </ul> </li>  </ul> </div>  </div> </span> <span class="trackable-component component-wrapper five-col" data-component="comp: Pickable with editable override : Standard trailblock"> <div id="ppoisflja" class="pickabletag tag-tag news five-col component standard-trailblock news-trails"> <div class=""> <div class="global trail-header"> <div class="hd"> <h2> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/science+tone/news">News</a> </h2> </div> </div> </div> <ul class="tri trail 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href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/12/red-meat-death-heart-cancer#start-of-comments" class="trail-comment-count comments-open" short-url="-p-365kx" style="display:none"><span class="comment-count-val"></span></a> </li> <li class="normal live edge "> <div class="linktext"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/12/mild-dry-weather-uk-remain">Mild and dry weather expected to remain all week</a></h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/12/mild-dry-weather-uk-remain" title="Opens in a new window" class="link-image"> <img alt="Daffodils" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2012/3/12/1331553589477/Daffodils-003.jpg" width="140" class="trail-image" height="84"/> </a> Above-average temperatures set to continue across most of UK with prospect of hosepipe bans in London and south-east </div> </li> <li class="normal live odd "> <div class="linktext"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/12/ozone-layer-scientist-dies">Ozone layer scientist who 'saved the world' dies</a></h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/12/ozone-layer-scientist-dies" title="Opens in a new window" class="link-image"> <img alt="Ozone layer scientist F Sherwood Rowland, left" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/3/12/1331532145734/Ozone-layer-scientist-F-S-003.jpg" width="140" class="trail-image" height="84"/> </a> <p>F Sherwood Rowland won Nobel prize for raising the alarm over CFC gases destroying Earth's ultraviolet shield</p> </div> </li> <li class="normal live edge "> <div class="linktext"> <h3><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/09/forensics-firm-investigated-dna">Forensics firm investigated over DNA blunder in rape case</a></h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/mar/09/forensics-firm-investigated-dna" title="Opens in a new window" class="link-image"> <img alt="A scientist puts forensic evidence in a sample tube" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930im_/http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/3/9/1331317419276/A-scientist-puts-forensic-003.jpg" width="140" class="trail-image" height="84"/> </a> Error by private company LGC Forensics raises fears among law enforcement officials that other cases may be put in jeopardy </div> </li> <li class="normal live last"><a class="more" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/science+tone/news">More science news</a></li> </ul> </div> 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RT <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://twitter.com/sunbug:" target="_new">@sunbug:</a> one of them in that piece says they're a paediatrician</p> <span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://twitter.com/bengoldacre/statuses/179325902851813378">about 1 hour, 31 minutes ago</a></span> </li> <li class="l1 tweet"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://twitter.com/bengoldacre"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930im_/http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/70122555/n668387510_88777_2191_normal.jpg" alt="bengoldacre" height="40" width="40"/></a> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://twitter.com/bengoldacre"><strong>bengoldacre:</strong></a> It seems this is not the first time <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://twitter.com/40days4lifeuk" target="_new">@40days4lifeuk</a> have harrassed/blackmailed women by filming them <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://t.co/UMCiIWP4`" target="_new">http://t.co/UMCiIWP4`</a></p> <span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://twitter.com/bengoldacre/statuses/179324611253645315">about 1 hour, 36 minutes ago</a></span> </li> <li class="l1 tweet"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://twitter.com/mjrobbins"><img src="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930im_/http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1870545942/mesmall_normal.png" alt="mjrobbins" height="40" width="40"/></a> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120312233930/http://twitter.com/mjrobbins"><strong>mjrobbins:</strong></a> Twitter buys Posterous... with what exactly? 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