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# is it a bird? Is it a plane?

Look up - a bunch of astronauts are about to float over Ireland

The International Space Station will be visable in our skies for the next five nights.

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Apr 9th 2015, 8:30 PM

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What is the one species of animal David Attenborough 'never thinks about'?

That, and 8 other highlights from his Reddit AMA.

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Jan 9th 2014, 7:30 PM

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Billion-year-old water discovered in Canada could give clues to early life on Earth

Life-giving chemicals have been discovered in isolated water believed to be 1.5 billion years old, raising hopes of scientists finding surviving microscopic organisms from a prehistoric age.

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May 16th 2013, 10:13 AM