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British astronaut Tim Peake says he wants his mission to the space station to change attitudes towards science.

Genes are partly to blame for some dogs getting fat, say scientists who have studied Labrador retrievers.

British industry is to lead the construction of the Biomass satellite which will use an innovative radar instrument to essentially weigh the world's trees.

Solar Impulse, a plane fuelled only by the sun, has landed in the US state of Arizona after a 16-hour flight from California.

Researchers in the US believe they are a step closer to finding the Endeavour, the ship in which Captain Cook sailed to Australia in 1768.

The Australian politician who declared war on Johnny Depp's dogs has a new enemy - the European carp.

The zero-fuel aeroplane Solar Impulse starts to cross the continental USA, flying the first leg from California to Arizona.

As expected, the European and Russian space agencies have delayed the launch of their ExoMars robot rover by two years to 2020.

Barn owls can struggle to survive in cold, wet weather and as low temperatures persist people in Yorkshire are doing their best to give the birds a helping hand as Paul Murphy reports.

UK astronaut Tim Peake has performed a challenging remote control experiment on the International Space Station.

The Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in Switzerland is offline after suffering a short circuit - caused by a weasel.

UK astronaut Tim Peake controls a robot vehicle on Earth from the space station, simulating how humans could one day remotely command vehicles on other worlds.

President Kenyatta of Kenya urges action to end Africa's illegal trade in ivory as he prepares to host a summit on saving elephants from extinction.

Last year's wet summer, followed by one of the warmest winters on record, has helped to create a generation of sleepless slugs, wildlife experts have warned.

Conservationists have come up with a novel solution, using fake versions of the Little Tern, to try to attract the real ones to find suitable nesting spots.

A new nuclear power station in the UK will be the most expensive thing ever built on the planet. True or false?

British astronaut Tim Peake is set to take part in an experiment to control a space rover on Earth from his base on the International Space Station.

Japan's space agency says it will abandon efforts to restore a multimillion dollar satellite sent to explore black holes, after it spun out of control.

A pioneering new treatment is giving is new hope for those with macular degeneration, as Pallab Ghosh reports.

The EU's newest Earth observation satellite, Sentinel-1b, has returned its first radar imagery - of Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago.

The largest field-study so far in to the group of pesticides called "neonicotinoids" has concluded that each acts differently on the brains of the bees.

Scientists describe the processes that drive "ice sails" - a rare and somewhat esoteric feature of debris covered glaciers.

Russia launches the first rocket from its new Vostochny cosmodrome, following a 24-hour delay that drew the ire of President Vladimir Putin.

Billionaire Elon Musk plans to send his Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018.

Scientists in the US have mapped out how the brain organises language.

More than 30 lions which have been rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia are to be flown to a sanctuary in South Africa.

The aftermath of the Chernobyl explosion

The covers come off the huge mirror that the James Webb Space Telescope - the planned successor to Hubble - will use to detect the light from the first stars to shine in the Universe.

A conservationist plans to take flight this autumn alongside thousands of swans as they make a 4,500-mile journey from the Russian arctic to the UK.

Supporting evidence that the Beagle-2 probe is sitting intact on the surface of Mars has come from a new imaging technique developed by UCL scientists.

The European Space Agency launches a second radar satellite into the EU's new Sentinel constellation, to acquire a complete map of the Earth every six days.

The emissions of carbon dioxide from industrial society has spurred a huge growth in trees and other plants, says a report.

In the first study of its kind, scientists have been able to measure the climatic effect of a wind farm on the local environment.

A gorilla has given birth at Prague Zoo, without keepers noticing she was pregnant.

UK astronaut Tim Peake has run the distance of the London Marathon on a treadmill in the International Space Station (ISS).

The zero-fuel aeroplane Solar Impulse completes a three-day flight from Hawaii across the Pacific Ocean, to land in California.

Amid hope and hype, delegates have finished signing the Paris climate agreement at UN headquarters in New York.

The EU’s Sentinel satellite system has begun monitoring six of the biggest glaciers on Earth in near real-time, to check for any changes in behaviour.

The first significant step to putting the Paris Climate Agreement into practice will take place at the UN on Friday when nearly 170 nations are expected to formally sign the deal.

Modern birds owe their survival to ancestors who were able to peck on seeds after the meteor strike that wiped out the dinosaurs, a study suggests.

Establishing new nature reserves with strict protection measures actually fails local communities and wildlife in the Congo Basin, a report says.

Scientists at Glasgow University establish a world first by cracking the communication code of our brains.

The zero-fuel aeroplane, Solar Impulse, renews its effort to circumnavigate the globe, leaving Hawaii to fly across the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco.

The ground convulsion resulting from North Korea's underground nuclear bomb test in January has been mapped by Europe's Sentinel-1a radar satellite.

A group of world leaders and international finance chiefs has urged the world to rapidly expand the pricing of carbon pollution.

Scientists build a mathematical model that explains the secrets of the chameleon's extraordinary tongue.

The LHC is not just the world's most powerful particle accelerator, it could also be its biggest rain meter.

The UK science community draws vital benefits from EU membership and could lose influence in the event of an exit, says a House of Lords report.