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A plane powered only by the sun travels to New York City for a photoshoot at the Statue of Liberty, ahead of crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
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A group of 13 Nobel prize-winning scientists warn leaving the EU poses a "key risk" to British science.
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Astronaut Tim Peake is recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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More than 80% of the world's population lives under light-polluted skies, a study suggests.
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Archaeologists using satellite imagery discover a huge, ceremonial monument at the Petra World Heritage site in southern Jordan.
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A hummingbird-like moth may have colonised the UK, according to conservationists.
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BBC Click smashes one of the panels on the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge to see how safe it is.
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Scientists think they have found a smart way to constrain carbon dioxide emissions - just turn them to stone.
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The government is failing to do enough to protect communities at risk of flooding and needs to do more long-term planning, MPs say.
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Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson are the names proposed for the four new chemical elements added to the periodic table in January.
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Using DNA from three people to create a baby is safe, according to a major research study, by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre at Newcastle University.
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Six months after Tim Peake blasted off to the International Space Station, he is preparing for his return to Earth.
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British astronaut Tim Peake has been on the International Space Station for nearly six months, where the climate is unsurprisingly constant.
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Researchers discover fossils that suggest the famous Hobbit species shrank on the Indonesian island of Flores within the space of 300,000 years.
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A kayaker has filmed a close encounter with a 23ft (7m) basking shark off the south coast of the Isle of Man.
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Mammals began to flourish well before the end of the dinosaur age, a new study finds.
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Italy's tomatoes and Thailand's potent chillies, although closely associated with these nations, have their historical roots elsewhere, a study reveals.
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Footage of Bryde's whales feeding has been caught on camera.
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Up to 85% of the corals in the Chagos Marine Reserve of the British Indian Ocean Territory are estimated to have been damaged or killed in the current global bleaching event.
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The Lisa Pathfinder mission, which was designed to demonstrate the technologies needed to detect gravitational waves in space, has been a stunning success, say officials.
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Australian scientists have used genetic material to pinpoint the origin of the deep-sea mushroom, an unusual gelatinous creature first dredged up near Tasmania in 1986.
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The hunt for a cancer cure should be treated with as much urgency as the Ebola outbreak, says US Vice-President Joe Biden.
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US scientists try to grow human organs inside pigs to solve the transplant shortage by injecting human stem cells into pig embryos.
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Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs.
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David Cameron and Boris Johnson clash over the impact of the EU on the UK's fishing industry, during an interview with the BBC's Countryfile programme.
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The Universe may be expanding up to 9% faster than previously thought, according to new measurements from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Ancient underwater remains thought to be a "long lost city" are in fact the result of a naturally occurring phenomenon, researchers find.
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Snails use two brain cells to make "complex decisions", a team of scientists finds.
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A flat lens made of paint whitener on a sliver of glass could revolutionise optics, its US inventors say.
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US astronomers have managed to peer deep into the atmosphere of Jupiter using a radio telescope here on Earth.
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Young fish become hooked on eating plastic in the seas in the same way that teenagers prefer unhealthy fast food, researchers say.
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Nepal's army begins work to drain rising waters in a lake near Everest, one the highest projects of its kind.
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A monk is detained for attempting to smuggle tiger skins and fangs from a Buddhist temple accused of animal trafficking, Thai authorities say.
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Following a four-month wait, the clutch of eggs belonging to a curious Slovenian cave salamander has started to hatch.
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A dagger entombed alongside the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was made with iron that came from a meteorite, researchers say.
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MPs warn that continued soil degradation risks putting some of the UK’s most productive agricultural land beyond profitable use within a generation.
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The scientific mystery behind one of British science's most famous insects has finally been solved.
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The spectacular, flat landscape that dominates the left side of Pluto's icy "heart" can now be explained, say scientists.
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Scientists unravel details of the famous mutation that turned moths black during the industrial revolution.
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MSPs vote in favour of a Labour amendment calling for an outright ban on fracking in Scotland as SNP members abstain.
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The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel is officially opened in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work.
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Forty dead tiger cubs are found in a freezer at a famous Thai Buddhist temple that is being closed amid accusations of trafficking and abuse.
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Roman tablets discovered during excavations in London include the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain, archaeologists say.
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Aurora Borealis watchers switch from using detection equipment in England to kit in Scotland after missing spectacular displays in March.
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While Tim Peake has been in space he has handed out Brit Awards, run the London Marathon, and even done a spacewalk.
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The world added far more renewable energy sources than fossil fuels in 2015, with developing countries overtaking richer nations on green spending.
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The world's longest, deepest rail tunnel just opened
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Water found deep in the Moon was delivered when icy asteroids splashed into magma oceans 4.3 billion years ago, a study suggests.
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Scientists in California are testing a spongy material made with the key ingredient of baking soda as means of capturing carbon emissions.
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Wildlife authorities in Thailand are removing tigers from a controversial Buddhist temple after accusations of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.
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