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| VIDEO: Soyuz spaceship docks at ISS Thu, 17 May 2012 06:59:45 GMT A Soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked with the International Space Station. |
| VIDEO: Wildlife Trusts celebrates centenary Wed, 16 May 2012 14:44:28 GMT The movement which started the Wildlife Trusts is celebrating its centenary year. |
| VIDEO: A look at 'wind turbines' of the deep Thu, 17 May 2012 05:13:38 GMT The latest device to harness the power of the tides is being tested in the stormy waters off Orkney in the far north of Scotland. |
| VIDEO: Hopes for West Country mining Tue, 15 May 2012 11:44:23 GMT Contracts giving a mining company ownership of land in Cornwall which it says it needs for new buildings have been signed. |
| VIDEO: Norway tests carbon capture technology Fri, 11 May 2012 05:56:58 GMT A hi-tech facility that could unlock the key to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from power stations has just opened in Norway. |
| VIDEO: Are billions exposed to unsafe water? Mon, 14 May 2012 20:17:09 GMT The UN has greatly downplayed the scale of the global drinking water crisis, research carried out by the BBC suggests. |
| AUDIO: Tweeting to a planet near you Fri, 11 May 2012 09:20:41 GMT Why is an artist about to sent tweets into space? Nathaniel Stern, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, and Anu Ojha, Director of the National Space Academy in Leicester, explain. |
| VIDEO: Flying into the heart of a storm Thu, 10 May 2012 05:17:50 GMT Scientists have flown through the heart of a turbulent weather system in a bid to understand the causes of heavy rainfall. |
| VIDEO: Soyuz rocket launch in Kazakhstan Tue, 15 May 2012 03:40:36 GMT A Soyuz rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut has launched successfully from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |
| VIDEO: Hunting the world's worst alien invader Tue, 08 May 2012 21:08:21 GMT On the hunt for the brown tree snake - one of the worst invasive species in the world. |
| VIDEO: X-rays probe world's oldest 'computer' Wed, 09 May 2012 23:22:00 GMT Scientists using X-ray imaging find out some of the secrets of the world's oldest 'computer' - the Antikythera Mechanism. |
| VIDEO: Telescope component viewed close up Wed, 09 May 2012 19:39:24 GMT BBC correspondent Jonathan Amos gets to see the Mid-Infrared Instrument (Miri) close up before its shipment to the US. |
| AUDIO: Telescope 'to see things Hubble can't' Wed, 09 May 2012 08:40:45 GMT Dr Eric Smith, deputy director for the James Webb Space Telescope at Nasa, on plans to build a space telescope that's bigger and better than the Hubble. |
| AUDIO: Why are there not more women in science? Wed, 09 May 2012 09:56:51 GMT Professor Lesley Yellowlees, the Royal Society of Chemistry's president-elect, on why she believes Great Britain is half a century behind the United States when it comes to opportunities for women in science. |
| VIDEO: 'Warm sea' killed pelicans in Peru Wed, 09 May 2012 21:29:39 GMT Scientists blame rise in sea temperatures for death of thousands of pelicans in Peru. |
| VIDEO: Tornado damages trees and homes Tue, 08 May 2012 19:42:33 GMT A tornado has been reported in parts of Oxfordshire during a storm which caused damage to trees and roof tiles. |
| VIDEO: Washes nesting season washed out Fri, 04 May 2012 12:02:22 GMT Torrential rain has washed out the nesting season at the RSPB nature reserve on the Ouse Washes in Cambridgeshire, which have been turned into an inland sea. |
| AUDIO: Fracking 'could be part of the answer' Tue, 08 May 2012 09:35:23 GMT Lord Smith, chair of the Environment Agency, explains why the agency has decided that fracking should be allowed in the UK. |
| VIDEO: Tagged cuckoos complete journey Sat, 05 May 2012 01:37:32 GMT Two cuckoos fitted with satellite tracking devices return to the UK, revealing new information about the threatened birds' migration. |
| VIDEO: Behind scenes of Planet Earth Live Fri, 04 May 2012 08:36:00 GMT This month the BBC will be following the lives of some of the world's most magnificent creatures. |
| AUDIO: How do you react to horrible sounds? Thu, 03 May 2012 09:26:35 GMT Why are some people more affected than others by horrible sounds? 18-year-old amateur scientist Izzy Thomlinson and her mentor Professor Trevor Cox explain why they want to find out how people's personalities change how they respond to certain sounds. |
| VIDEO: Tornado whips through Oxfordshire Tue, 08 May 2012 07:01:32 GMT A tornado has been reported in parts of Oxfordshire during a storm which caused damage to trees and roof tiles on Monday. |
| AUDIO: 'Please don't destroy our crop' Wed, 02 May 2012 07:44:26 GMT Can there be a meeting of minds between researchers into genetically-modified crops and those who are deeply hostile to the technology? |
| VIDEO: Inuit protest against seal ban Wed, 02 May 2012 05:33:36 GMT Inuit hunters from Greenland have been protesting in the Danish capital Copenhagen over the decision by a major department store to stop selling seal products. |
| AUDIO: How to confuse hairy caterpillars Tue, 01 May 2012 09:55:39 GMT Potentially deadly exotic caterpillars are invading Britain, according to the Daily Mail. Tony Kirkham, Head of Arboretum at Kew Gardens explains what they are and their dangers. |
| VIDEO: Leonardo anatomy drawings on show Tue, 01 May 2012 05:42:10 GMT Martin Clayton, senior curator of the Royal Collection, shows Fergus Walsh some of the highlights from the largest ever exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the human body. |
| VIDEO: The real-life Robinson Crusoe Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:46:55 GMT An 86-year-old Yorkshire man, Brendon Grimshaw may have lived alone for many years on the tiny island paradise of Moyenne in the Seychelles in the middle of the Indian Ocean since he bought it in 1962 for £8000, but he is rarely lonely. |
| VIDEO: Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:49:49 GMT A Soyuz space capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut has landed safely in Kazakhstan. |
| VIDEO: Enterprise shuttle in NY fly past Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:50:28 GMT Nasa's test shuttle Enterprise has flown over New York, taking an aerial tour of some of Manhattan's most famous landmarks, on the journey to its new home. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.