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It look two hours to free the new-born humpback whale, off Australia's Gold Coast.

Robots with novel seafloor mapping capabilities will demonstrate their skill in a Greek showdown.

The Australian government has backed coal-fired power despite the recommendations of a major report on climate change.

Why it's vital we take steps to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees

Here's five things we can do to help prevent global temperatures rising more than 1.5 degrees C.

The test could help explain why people with apparently no risk factors can still have a heart attack.

William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win prize for research on how climate and technology affect the economy.

The Hubble Space Telescope is operating with only essential functions after it lost one of the gyroscopes needed to point the spacecraft.

The most important messages from the landmark report on global warming.

Top scientists from around the world urge changes "in all aspects of society" to limit climate warming.

Space X's mission to the Moon will be the first lunar journey by humans since 1972.

Ukraine launches its first solar plant in the abandoned area around the former nuclear power station.

Italian researcher Alessandro Strumia is heavily criticised for claiming physics was "built by men".

An eight-year-old girl found a pre-Viking era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer.

The government says it has a clear plan, but many in the nuclear sector are concerned for the future.

Using technologies to keep global temperature rise below 1.5C is "crazy" but may be the only way.

The industry is blamed for damaging the environment, fuelling climate change and polluting water.

Water shortages mean the laundry industry is adopting various technologies to reduce consumption.

Children's drawings of nightmarish scenarios illustrate climate change's impact in the Mekong Delta.

Sir David Attenborough on Love Island, Global Warming, population growth and meat eating.

Astronomers have announced the possible discovery of the first known moon outside our Solar System.

Zoos can help save animals not just cage them, says veteran wildlife photographer Joel Sartore.

Professor Donna Strickland has become the first woman in 55 years to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Four pioneering women who changed the face of physics from the 1800s to the present day.

Japan's space agency (Jaxa) successfully despatches a German-led lander to the surface of an asteroid.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries in enzyme research.

IPCC scientist says there are some positive signs about our ability to keep the global temperature rise to 1.5C

Elina Berg is a member of a campaign group which is suing the Norwegian government over oil exploration in the Arctic.

Scientists are developing technology to help.

Scientists are investigating why around 70 deep water whales have washed up on Scottish and Irish beaches since the beginning of August.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to a woman for only the third time since the award began.

1.5C has become the new "safe" upper-limit for global warming - but whatever happened to the two-degree target?

One Indonesian inventor has found a unique solution to the problem of plastic food packaging.

Prof Alessandro Strumia, of Pisa University, had said "physics was invented and built by men".

Researchers are trying to establish why Friday's quake generated such big waves.

Cern removes "highly offensive" slides from website from a talk on women in particle physics

Not everyone is happy with a missing detail in a new film about the 1969 Moon landing.

Scientists discuss a report aimed at keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C this century.

An antelope caught on camera in Uganda for the first time sheds light on an unexplored rainforest.

Volunteers are urged to make a weekly record of the Tawny owl's distinctive hoot, as numbers fall.

Orcas are in deep trouble because of persistent chemical pollution in the environment, researchers say.

Traditional remedies used by gardeners to deter slugs and snails appear to have no scientific merit.

Chemical pollution threatens the long-term viability of the most exposed orca groups.

HS2 is going to be built through these bats' habitat.

Japan has released new images from the robot rovers it has deployed to the surface of an asteroid.

It connects 17 national parks and runs for 2,800km (1,740 miles) through sparsely populated land.

The profile of Arctic shrubs and grasses is changing as temperatures rise in the far north.

Businesses in India may have found a way to turn plastic rubbish into a golden business opportunity.

Bombs dropped in World War II were so strong they were felt in the Earth's upper atmosphere

Concerns over CO2 emissions as development restarts at hundreds of coal-fired power stations in China.