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A home security camera caught the moment a meteor over Canada burst into flames.

Help is sought to digitise a unique set of records gathered on top of the UK's highest mountain.

The animals hold "social rallies" and choose when to hunt via a sneezing ballot, a study finds.

In September 1991, eight scientists sealed themselves inside a giant greenhouse for two years. Linda Leigh was one of them.

Options for collaboration between research communities post-Brexit will be set out in a government paper.

The Category 5 storm is making landfall over the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean.

A supplier is working with farms in Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Suffolk, Sussex and Wiltshire.

Scientists from Florida International University have teamed up with Nasa to create the world's deepest coral farm in an effort to tackle the decline of coral reefs.

Scientists connect the solar storms behind the Aurora Borealis to the deaths of 29 whales in the North Sea.

Palaeontologists are turning to technology to preserve dinosaur fossils.

The Voyager 1 space probe was launched 40 years ago and continues to send back data from interstellar space.

Around 200 members of family and colleagues attended a memorial for Stephen Tindale.

The three-person crew of Peggy Whitson, Jack Fischer and Fyodor Yurchikhin have landed safely in Kazakhstan.

Footage of a number of waterspouts in Russia has emerged.

A powerful machine opens in Germany to probe the structure of matter to help make new drugs and materials.

Suffolk Wildlife Trust says species including the stone curlew will benefit from the purchase.

Florence will pass by at a relatively close distance but scientists say there is nothing to worry about.

Calluna, a female harrier fitted with a satellite tag, has not been tracked for more than a fortnight.

Those using more than 900 watts and emitting more than 80 decibels are now banned in Europe's shops.

New research sheds light on why yawns are so contagious.

Scientists are closer to solving one of the big puzzles of the plant world - why leaf size matters.

Researchers observe smooth-coated otters watching and learning from each other.

The reasons why the fourth-largest city in the US has become its flood capital.

More tests next month might mean the pods for the science-fictional transport system hit 500 km/h

Conservation charity WWF warns that the species were found in areas at risk from human activity.

This is the largest radio telescope on Earth, 5,000m up in the Atacama Desert. It can see stars and planets being born millions of light-years away.

Why has the government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?

Vet Amir Khalil goes into conflict areas to save the zoo animals left behind.

US authorities approve a treatment which re-designs a patient's own immune system to attack cancer.

The order prevents the government from exploiting a protected area bigger than Denmark.

New data gathered by the Cassini probe suggests Saturn's icy bands formed relatively recently.

Birds rely on smell to find their bearings when land is out of sight, according to a study.

A 200-million-year-old fossil 're-discovered' in a museum is something special, say scientists.

The arguments nearly a century ago over the use of leaded petrol.

The sight, off the coast of Florida's Anna Maria Island, was filmed on Thursday afternoon.

A new citizen science survey aims to shed light on that fixture of summertime in the outdoors: the wasp.

A huge rockfall in Val Bondasca raises questions about how climate change is affecting the Alps.

Hundreds of years after the dodo died out, new facts are emerging about the life history of the bird.

Rising Arctic temperatures are boosting commercial shipping in the region, worrying environmentalists.

Scientists are divided on whether snow leopards are still endangered species, a BBC investigation finds.

The previously-protected area is bigger than Denmark and is thought to be rich in gold.

Campaigners in Poland are worried about the future of one of Europe's last primeval forests, as the Polish government defies an EU order to stop logging there.

Up to 60 million Pakistanis are at risk from the deadly chemical, according to a new water analysis.

New study shows invasive rhododendrons damage woodland environment but are not poisoning the soil

The UK contributes to a sophisticated new radar to map the Sun's impacts on Earth's high atmosphere.

Former Marshall Islands minister Tony De Brum, who played a key role in securing the Paris pact passes away aged 72.

Australia Zoo has asked the public to name a white koala joey.

Scientists create bacteria covered in tiny solar panels that generate a potential new fuel from the Sun.

Find out when you can next witness a solar eclipse in your country with our eclipse calculator.

BBC correspondent James Cook views the total eclipse from 40,000ft above the Pacific Ocean.