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Top 10 Museum news stories 2014
From research into rivers of rubbish and 800,000-year-old human footprints to the arrival of unprecedented new specimens, catch up on the most popular stories from 2014.
31 December 2014 -
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Deep sea littered with plastic debris
Deep-sea sediments are accumulating tiny fragments of plastic in surprisingly high concentrations, scientists have discovered.
17 December 2014 -
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Blood test could help detect early breast cancer
Early-stage breast cancer could soon be caught using a blood test. The simple test could replace invasive biopsies as the first port of call for diagnosing the disease.
15 December 2014 -
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Laser technique wins innovation award
Museum researchers are part of an international team that has won a prestigious engineering award for a new laser-based prospecting method.
4 December 2014 -
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Come and meet the world’s most complete Stegosaurus
Our newest dinosaur goes on permanent display in the Museum’s Earth Hall today, greeting visitors through the Exhibition Road entrance.
4 December 2014