Britain invented the jet engine and radar and supplied much of the heavy cognitive lifting for the computer and biotechnology industries.

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"A dust-devil looks essentially like what you would expect from the movies - a tiny tornado that is lifting dust, " explained Manuel de la Torre Juarez of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a scientist on the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (Rems) instrument.

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