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Large Hadron Collider switched on

The first beam of protons travels all the way around the 27-kilometre ring.

10 September 2008 · Source: Wikipedia

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Scientists turn skin cells into stem cells

The discovery could make embryonic stem cell research unnecessary.

20 November 2007 · Source: Wikipedia

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Pluto demoted to dwarf planet

Astronomers vote in Prague to leave the solar system with eight planets.

24 August 2006 · Source: Wikipedia

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Huygens probe lands on Titan

The European probe sends back the first pictures from the surface of Saturn's largest moon.

14 January 2005 · Source: Wikipedia

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Manchester scientists make graphene

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov peel a one-atom-thick material from graphite with sticky tape.

22 October 2004 · Source: Wikipedia

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Beagle 2 fails to call home

No signal has been heard from the British Mars lander since it was due to touch down.

26 December 2003 · Source: Wikipedia

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Mars Odyssey finds water ice

Large amounts of ice lie in the top metre of soil around the planet's south pole.

28 May 2002 · Source: Wikipedia

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Lords back research on cloned embryos

Britain becomes one of the first countries to allow therapeutic cloning for research.

22 January 2001 · Source: Wikipedia

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First draft of the human genome announced

A third of the sequence was read at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge.

26 June 2000 · Source: Wikipedia