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The Chancellor Philip Hammond has made investment in research the centrepiece of his budget.

The genes that caused scales to become feathers in the early ancestors of birds have been found by US scientists.

A Supreme Court judge launches the first of a series of scientific guides for the UK judiciary.

More than 70,000 seeds have been sent from Kew's Millennium Seed Bank to Lebanon, for vital crop research.

Thousands more cases - including violent and sexual crimes - could be affected by "manipulated" tests.

The weather service says the levels of a radioactive isotope were nearly 1,000 times normal levels.

Europe's top court says Poland must prove it has stopped logging in Bialowieza forest or face fines.

The spectacular albatrosses featured in the BBC's Blue Planet series have seen a big slump in numbers.

An asteroid that visited our Solar System from interstellar space is one of the most elongated celestial bodies known to science.

Simon Reinhard mastered the Method of Loci to become a European memory champion.

The melting glacier contributing most to sea-level rise currently may be more resilient than previously recognised.

The Balkan country has the world's second highest death rate caused by air pollution.

Floods have been a deadly staple of 2017. But how can you protect yourself against the natural disaster?

The plant in the US state of California stores enough energy to power 20,000 homes for four hours.

UN climate talks finish with progress on technical issues but with questions on carbon cuts unresolved.

The US president's move comes a day after US hunters were told they could import elephant trophies.

As the UN climate change conference ends, BBC Science's David Shukman takes a look at melting ice caps.

The suspected meteor shook buildings when it raced through the sky in Lapland.

Seagrass meadows are diminishing worldwide, which has serious implications for fishing activity.

Tesla shows off a long awaited truck, but surprises with its new Roadster sports car.

The first known asteroid to visit our Solar System from interstellar space has been given a name.

A significant group of nations take a stand against using coal for electricity generation at UN climate talks.

The procedure took 30 people three hours to complete. Tantor had been rescued from a ranch in Colombia.

Laser labs sense black holes merging at a distance of about a billion light-years from Earth.

In a rare instance, Indian villagers and forest officers worked together for hours to save the animal

Singapore and Brazil are working together to bring two blue macaw species back from near-extinction.

A forecasting tool reveals which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt, say scientists.

A forecasting tool reveals which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt, say scientists.

French and UK governments say they will make up for any shortfall in funding for a global science body.

Vancouver-based UrtheCast contracts UK firm SSTL to build a series of satellites to image Earth every day.

Astronomers have found a cool, Earth-sized planet that's relatively close to our Solar System.

Can technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere really help prevent dangerous climate change?

President Trump's climate adviser says that the US is looking to revive a Bush-era climate forum.

People in Vunidogoloa had to move 2km (1.24m) inland, and say climate change is to blame.

The United Arab Emirates' space research is turning to growing food on Mars.

Volunteers and military personnel worked together to help return the killer whale to the ocean.

One army veteran suffering from PTSD says Forest Bathing is helping him sleep.

US officials were arguing for the continued use of coal at a UN meeting in Bonn, Germany.

This social media community has come together for the first time in North Carolina to discuss their shared belief.

Pottery found near Tbilisi shows wine-making was taking place 8,000 years ago, scientists say.

Enthusiasts across the UK share their photos of the two brightest planets appearing together.

Scientists make the most detailed map yet of the heat rising under the ice sheet from rocks below.

Uptick in coal use in China sees global CO2 emissions projected to rise after years of little or no growth.

A small plane entering the airspace had delayed Saturday's launch from Virginia in the US.

Minister Michael Gove insists environmental standards won't be sacrificed.

These men in Kenya have decided to do something about the amount of plastic bottles that clog an island's beaches.

Big quantities of nitrate chemicals from farm fertilisers are polluting the rocks beneath our feet.

The advance party sent in to open up Britain’s mothballed Antarctic base say it is in good shape.

Two species of seahorses are among the unexpected creatures found living in London.

For decades, there was a ceiling not of glass but of ice, holding women back from doing research in Antarctica.