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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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The supersonic test flight of its SpaceShipTwo rocket ship was the first since a crash in 2014.
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It's not just spiders, scorpions and snakes for the man in charge of pest control at Kandahar air base.
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A study of litter in UK seas shows the number of plastic bags has fallen, amid a rise in other types of plastic rubbish.
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The worms are being used because they have a similar muscle structure to humans.
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The robot connects to the internet so web users can control it and donate to pay maintenance costs.
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The Russian capital has no recycling programme and its expanding rubbish landfills are causing health problems.
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Scientists have been developing a technique to count animals that is usually used to map stars.
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A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, researchers say.
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Two Suffolk punch horses are being put forward for a charity's breeding programme.
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They were patrolling off the South Australian coast when they noticed something behind them.
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A new study reveals the surprising complexity of bowhead whale song.
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Researchers use astronomical techniques used to study distant stars to survey endangered species.
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The White Continent is surrendering ocean floor as the undersides of its glaciers are melted.
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Drones should be used to locate and penalise farmers who let soil run off their fields, a report will say.
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Researchers find that the footprints belonged to sauropods and therapods from the Middle Jurassic period.
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A UK-led project heads to orbit to trial technologies for removing redundant space hardware.
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China's defunct Tiangong-1 space lab mostly burnt up on re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
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Bernard Poujol believes ducks are the future for rice farms, but he hasn't quite perfected his technique.
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The defunct station is hurtling towards Earth but chances of it falling into your garden are slim.
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