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A facial reconstruction has been made of Orkney's St Magnus by a forensic artist to help mark the 900th anniversary of his death.
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Hans Rosling, who has died in Sweden aged 68, tells 200 years of world history in four minutes.
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Mr Rosling was known for lively, data-driven presentations debunking myths about global development.
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Disease has killed up to a quarter of Critically Endangered Saiga antelope in Mongolia, scientists say.
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A herd of plains bison have been successfully reintroduced to Canada's oldest national park, more than 100 years after they were nearly hunted out of existence.
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The staged reintroduction since the end of last month is going smoothly, officials say.
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BBC Breakfast presenters battle it out in the Terrific Scientific Bottle Rocket Challenge.
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Land Speed Record holder Andy Green describes how the Typhoon jet engine in the Bloodhound supersonic car will be fed with fuel.
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Increasing the water table under arable peatland can help boost yields and the amount of carbon stored in the soil, a study says.
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The rhino found on a Norfolk beach dates back about 700,000 years.
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Nasa releases a video of the ISS crew preparing to watch the Super Bowl from 250 miles above Earth.
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Kiruna Stamell, who has dwarfism, explains her problem with gene editing
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The British Antarctic Survey shifts its futuristic Halley base to keep it away from a watery grave.
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A small but distinctive signal in X-rays from the Milky Way could be key to proving the existence of dark matter.
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Prof Sir Mark Walport has been appointed to head Britain's newly created science funding organisation.
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Physicists have drawn up construction plans for a large-scale quantum computer.
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Geologists in Iceland have drilled deeper into a volcano than ever before, reaching a depth of 4,659m.
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Research shows how birds acquired beaks of all shapes and sizes over millions of years of evolution.
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Native Americans vow legal action as the go-ahead is given to complete the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
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The inventors of digital camera technology win the highest international prize for engineering.
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A new experimental crop of genetically modified (GM) wheat will be planted this spring after the UK government gave the final go-ahead.
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Dramatic footage shows the unusual phenomenon as lava flows through a crack in a sea cliff.
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Australian researchers say their discovery could significantly lower the material's cost to produce.
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Conservationists say the nets are killing too many dolphins and turtles.
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Scientists in China say they have produced cloned cattle with increased resistance to bovine tuberculosis.
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Paul Ferber, an ex-British policeman who lives on Koh Seh in the Gulf of Thailand, tells World Service how he catches illegal fishermen plundering Cambodia's ecosystem.
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Ancient proteins dating back 195 million years have been found inside a dinosaur bone.
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A project aims to investigate the social case for gardens and what impact they have on well-being.
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The seeds of domesticated plants could offer clues as to why cultivated crops are larger than their wild cousins, a study suggests.
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A tiny possum, an emblem of the state of Victoria in Australia, is rapidly heading towards extinction, say scientists.
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US scientists draw controversy as they claim to have fulfilled the decades-long quest to turn hydrogen into a state where it behaves like a metal.
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Meet the Sellafield engineer who says playing with pink toys will not deter girls from science careers.
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World Bank funding is being used to subsidise fossil fuel projects at the expense of cleaner options, a study reports but it is a claim strongly disputed by the World Bank.
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The remains of a religious pilgrim shed light on how leprosy came to Europe, researchers say.
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