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  By Marie-Louise Connolly, BBC News NI Health Correspondent, Edited by Amal Udawatta , More than 9,000 men in Northern Ireland are living with prostate cancer Research into personalised radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer is under way at Queen's University Belfast. It is the first time scientists are examining genes to determine a patient's cancer treatment. Dr Victoria Dunne, who's been awarded £280,000 for her research said it was "exciting and a privilege to be involved". Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, with more than 9,000 men living with it in Northern Ireland. More than 11,500 men die from the disease in the UK each year - that is one man every 45 minutes. Dr Dunne said this "personal therapy involving genetic therapy will determine different treatments for different men". "Basically two men would receive a different treatment if they came forward because they have different genes. That could include the amount of rad...

 From Earth Unreal,  Edited by Vinuri Randula Silva, The  Araripe manakin  ( Antilophia bokermanni ) is a  species  of  critically endangered   bird  from the  family  of  manakins  (Pipridae). It was discovered in 1996 and scientifically described in 1998. The species epithet commemorates Brazilian  zoologist  and wildlife filmmaker  Werner Bokermann As typical of most manakins, males and females have a strong  sexual dimorphism  in the colours of the  plumage . As in the helmeted manakin, it is a relatively large and long-tailed manakin, with a total length of c. 14.5 centimetres (5.7 in). The strikingly patterned males have predominantly white plumage. With the exception of the white little wings coverts, the wings are black as the tail. From the frontal tuft, over the crown, down to the middle back runs a  carmine  red patch. The  iris  is red. The females are ma...

 From BBC Science News, Jonathan Amos , Science corresponden, Eited by Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, GETTY IMAGES When an asteroid slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs, did it have a companion? Was Earth bombarded on that terrible day by more than one space rock? The discovery of what seems to be a second impact crater on the other side of the Atlantic, of a very similar age, is raising these questions. It's not as big as the one we know at Chicxulub in Mexico, but still it speaks to a catastrophic event. Dubbed Nadir Crater, the new feature sits more than 300m below the seabed, some 400km off the coast of Guinea, west Africa. With a diameter of 8.5km, it's likely the asteroid that created it was a little under half a kilometre across. The day the dinosaurs' world fell apart Immense crater hole created in Tonga volcano Asteroid-strike dinosaur fossil found - scientists Image caption, Chicxulub (Ch), Nadir (Nd) and Boltysh...