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Nasa's Jack Fischer gives his take on this aurora time-lapse from the International Space Station.

Each wind turbine is taller than Big Ben and the farm can power 20,000 homes.

Contentment comes from paying others to take on chores such as cleaning and cooking, a study says.

China might not have the lead in research but its application of secure networks is leading the way.

There's one question the BBC's science editor keeps being asked about life on the ice.

Glacial microbiologist Dr Joe Cook is in Greenland to examine the effect of algae on melting ice.

A new analysis suggests there's a greater chance of the heavy rain that led to extensive flooding in 2014.

The nine-year-old has no active HIV in the body after catching the infection at birth.

New rules will encourage UK consumers to generate and store their own power, ministers say.

We analysed how the body responds to stress - by making presenter Jordan Dunbar do a comedy performance.

The revolutionary technology allows wind power to be harvested in waters too deep for current turbines.

An underwater robot spotted the lava-like rocks inside a reactor of Japan's destroyed nuclear plant.

Male elephant seals recognise the rhythm of one another's voices, researchers say.

A 12ft-long python found on the Norfolk Broads has still not been found.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove plans to pay farmers for protecting the environment and creating rural jobs.

The bag was used by astronaut Neil Armstrong to collect the first ever samples of the Moon in 1969.

A 10-year-old boy's stumble unearthed a prehistoric skull, which he then got the chance to help excavate.

The number fledging from the UK in 2017 is more than the total number for the previous 30 years.

Male elephant seals recognise the rhythm of one another's voices, researchers say.

A US congressman asked scientists if the Red Planet could have been occupied "thousands of years ago".

Pangolins in the forests of Africa are at risk of being pushed to extinction like their Asian relatives.

Research shows Aboriginal people entered Australia up to 18,000 years earlier than thought.

Being friendly is in dogs' nature and could be key to how they were domesticated from wolves.

A UK zoo is taking part in a radical plan to save the world's last northern white rhinos from extinction.

Dogs were tamed from a single wolf population between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, a study suggests.

The European Space Agency turns off one of its most successful ever missions - LISA Pathfinder.

The birds were collected under licence for translocation to a part of Spain where they have not bred for years.

New research suggests the dinosaur could go no faster than a very brisk walking pace.

Legislators vote to extend a programme that charges firms for releasing pollutants to the year 2030.

We're all used to ants sprouting wings and taking to the air during summer, but is there really such a thing as a "flying ant day"?

New radio telescopes far more powerful than any used before aim to shed light on extra terrestrial activity.

Satellite images show the colossal Larsen iceberg continuing to edge away from the White Continent.

New research reveals why bigger is not always better in the animal world when it comes to speed.

World Land Speed record holder Andy Green looks forward to the first, low-speed runs of the Bloodhound supersonic car.

The wildcat could be reintroduced into the UK for the first time in 1,300 years.

A mariner says there is a "raft" of plastic debris spanning 965,000 square miles in part of the South Pacific.

Scientists have dated the trees to a previous ice age 60,000 years ago, when sea levels were far lower.

A "raft" of plastic debris spanning more than 965,000 square miles is floating in the South Pacific.

Acclaimed Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani dies of breast cancer aged 40.

Six of the world's large carnivores have lost more than 90% of their historic range, new analysis says.

Chinese scientists have "teleported" a photon particle to a satellite - could humans be next?

Broadcaster Sir David Attenborough says species have suffered "significant declines" recently.

How reducing the methane from cows is helping to fight climate change

The UK should focus on making fuel from chip fat, whiskey dregs and forest waste and not from crops like wheat

A gannet bonanza is confirmed on the towering cliffs of Yorkshire by research from the RSPB.

Polish logging in one of Europe's last remaining primeval forests is to go to the EU's top court.

At least 200 campaigners in 24 countries were killed in 2016, according to a new report from Global Witness.

A Nasa probe returns the most detailed pictures ever of one of the Solar System's biggest storms.

Home Office annual figures show that animal experiments in the UK fell by 5% in 2016.

Which creature is taking the place of Dippy the dinosaur?