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The world-famous specimen is the world's best-preserved example of the extinct bird.
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The gender gap in science subjects like physics is likely to persist for hundreds of years, study suggests.
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In an example of human natural selection, Asia's Bajau people have evolved bigger spleens for diving.
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Scientist Vladimir Uglev has no doubt the agent that poisoned the Skripals was made in Russia.
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Plan for a ban in England is announced as Commonwealth leaders are urged to tackle plastic waste.
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Nasa's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Tess) searches for new planets.
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The US space agency's Tess satellite lifts off on a mission to find thousands of new worlds.
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A record number of Nepalese women are climbing Mount Everest this spring season, officials tell the BBC.
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Wild equines are being reintroduced to the grasslands of Kazakhstan where they once roamed in large numbers.
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Recurring spells of ocean warming impact the diversity of coral reef communities.
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The alternative to ice involves pumping livers with blood, nutrients and medicines while in a machine.
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Experts describe the challenges facing those investigating an alleged chemical attack in Syria.
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The space rock that exploded in 2008 seems to have come from the early Solar System.
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The UK's biggest coffee chain says it will recycle as many disposable cups as it sells by 2020.
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China's nuclear fusion research might put the country at the fore of future clean energy solutions.
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Scientists at University College London (UCL) decide to honour Sir David Attenborough and the team.
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The young female porpoise had become stranded at Grange burn near to Grangemouth.
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Poland violated EU law by ordering large-scale logging in Bialowieza forest, Europe's top court says.
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Karen Nyberg, who's been to space twice, answers questions from primary school children.
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A senior Nasa engineer has said the first person to set foot on Mars should be a woman.
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It's not as easy to recycle your takeaway coffee cup as people may have thought.
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The launch of the Tess mission to find new worlds beyond our Solar System is delayed by 48 hours.
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Science created a 'wonder material' in plastic; now nature is helping to unmake it.
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Calaya, the western lowland gorilla, gave birth at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC.
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UK astronomer Bill Chaplin demonstrates the noises that stars make and why this is useful to know.
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The Tess mission will survey nearly the entire sky and is expected to find thousands of new worlds.
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A new study shows that some species may become victims of their own prestige.
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Breakthrough explains why some cancers are far more deadly than others.
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The international chemical weapons watchdog confirms the UK's analysis of the nerve agent in Salisbury.
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Boeing and Rolls-Royce are investing in the UK company developing a revolutionary propulsion system.
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UK and Belgian scientists explore the seabed off Norfolk after prehistoric finds.
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Ancient DNA from human remains has helped construct a new narrative for human history.
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Two lakes discovered beneath an Arctic ice sheet may help us to learn about Europa's subsurface ocean.
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An Atlantic Ocean circulation system that warms Europe's climate is weaker today than it has been in 1,000 years, say scientists.
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The chemical fog used to hide the Tirpitz battleship in WWII stunted the growth of trees.
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The subtle warping of the land surface across Britain is fully mapped in detail for the first time.
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A project to sequence DNA from ancient remains may solve a puzzle involving people from south-east Britain.
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Satellites make the most detailed observations yet of the magnetism generated by moving seawater.
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When the Barcelona striker nets another wonder goal, the city literally shakes.
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Autonomous sea-gliders fitted with hydrophones gather information far from weather stations.
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Sea reptiles the size of blue whales swam off the English coast 200 million years ago, fossils show.
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Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count, while the rest are microscopic colonists.
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A scientific cruise next year will look for Ernest Shackleton's famous lost ship given the opportunity.
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An international expedition next year will try to reach the site of a major new iceberg.
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Cambridge University researchers find human cancer drugs could halt the extinction of the marsupial.
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A fossil find from Saudi Arabia adds to growing evidence that modern humans left Africa earlier than supposed.
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The annual extra now compared with the early 1800s has a water volume twice that of the Dead Sea.
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Serbian social media users mock city's tribute to the first man in space.
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The media watchdog says the ex-chancellor was "not sufficiently challenged" during a radio interview.
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A new mission aboard the International Space Station is taking storm chasing to new heights.
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