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British particle physicist Brian Cox verbally spars with a newly elected Australian politician who believes climate change is a global conspiracy.

Madagascar's conservationists work in secrecy to protect one of the world's most beautiful tortoises from poachers, writes journalist Martin Vogl.

Lonnie Johnson had an illustrious career as a nuclear engineer working on the Galileo space programme and the stealth bomber - but he is best known for creating a water pistol

Photographs and footage capture the annual Perseid meteor shower, which is more active than usual this year.

Two-inch long fish have appeared in a garden in Banff.

An animal charity appeals against a court decision which ruled a monkey could not own the copyright to a selfie photograph it took.

Scientists find some rockhopper and Snares crested penguins travel 15,000km in six months.

Observers say the annual astronomical event was marked with "spectacular fireballs" in the early hours of Friday.

About 200 baby Montserrat tarantulas have hatched at Chester Zoo - the first time the rare Caribbean spider has been bred in captivity.

Keepers at Chester Zoo have become the first in the world to successfully breed Montserrat tarantulas in captivity.

Thousands are calling for a ban on grouse shooting, arguing the sport increases the threat faced by an endangered species of raptors.

Scientists say they have found a Greenland shark that is about 400 years old - making it the longest-living vertebrate known.

Scientists find a baby tooth in the fossilised faeces of an extinct shark, suggesting the animals practised filial cannibalism.

Scientists are studying killer whales in an effort to understand the mysterious biology behind the menopause - in both orcas and humans.

After an eight-year study, researchers conclude that history's most infamous fake fossils were made by one man - the prime suspect, Charles Dawson.

Scientists confirm that wild crows from New Caledonia in the South Pacific can craft tools.

Why scientists are watching killer whales in an effort to understand the mysterious biology behind the menopause.

A small team of salvage experts is lowered onto the stranded oil rig in the Western Isles.

A deep-sea expedition discovers a remarkable array of life on the UK's tallest underwater mountains.

Scientists from Plymouth University have visited the UK's tallest mountains - over 100 metres under the sea.

International scientists are calling for action to "future proof" the insects, birds and mammals that pollinate crops and wild plants.

Paddling from Greenland to Scotland in a canoe is risky business.

Researchers have developed a battery which self-destructs when dropped into water.

New research blames rising temperatures over the last century as the key cause of decline in Lake Tanganyika, one of the world's most important fisheries.

The speedy, almost comical horse step known as an ambling gait originated in England in the middle of the Ninth Century, scientists say.

Another giant panda cub is born at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo - the fourth time that mother Yang Yang has conceived naturally.

China launched its first mobile telecommunications satellite, to establish a network serving large swathes of the world.

A physicist speaks to BBC2's Horizon programme as a tantalising discovery recedes into the background of data from the Large Hadron Collider.

Results from the Large Hadron Collider show that a "bump" in the machine's data, previously rumoured to represent a new particle, has gone away.

New research suggests that badgers do not transmit TB to cattle by direct contact.

Geologists have found evidence for an ancient megaflood which they say could be the mythical flood at the dawn of the first Chinese dynasty.

An analysis of sports events suggests men may be better at reconciliation after conflicts which could give them advantages in the workplace.

A hidden portrait by the French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas has been revealed using powerful x-rays, scientists report.

China's Jade Rabbit says a final goodbye and shuts down forever, after 31 months exploring the Moon, far outliving its predicted lifespan.

Scientists observe activity in the mouse brain which can explain why we get thirsty when we eat, and why cool water quenches thirst more quickly.

Moon Express becomes the first private firm to win US approval for an unmanned mission to the moon.

Photographs in which still objects can be manipulated are developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Photographs in which still objects can be manipulated are developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A neuroscientist explains why Donald Trump found a crying baby at his rally so distracting.

Two Amur leopards - believed to be the world's rarest big cat - are born at Twycross Zoo.

The 2m-high Transit Elevated Bus took its inaugural test run in the streets of Hebei, much to the amazement of Chinese citizens.

Professor Brian Cox talks to the BBC about how why science can give us hope in a turbulent world.

Emily Voigt devoted three years of her life and visited fifteen countries in search of the rare Asian arowana.

The man who has taken charge of UK research funding says Brexit presents scientists with an opportunity.

The World Music Festival, Womad, hosted a science pavilion this year, but are such initiatives successful?

One of the last known populations of woolly mammoths became extinct because of a lack of drinking water, a study concludes.

Slow-motion replays of crimes in courtrooms may be distorting the outcomes of trials, according to US research.

Controlling human nerve cells with electricity could treat a range of disease including type-2 diabetes, a new company says.

A lynx that escaped from Dartmoor Zoo is back in his pen after more than three weeks on the run.

A whirling column of air and water mist provides a stunning sight off the Suffolk coast.