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Sudden cuts to UK renewables subsidies have spooked investors and may lead to higher energy bills, say MPs.

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of western Indonesia, the US Geological Survey reports, with local tsunami alerts now lifted.

A Nasa astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut return to earth after spending nearly a year on board the International Space Station.

Sentinel-3a, the EU's latest Earth observer, returns its first pictures of the planet, featuring a collection of ocean and land margins.

Oil giant Shell is being sued in London for the second time in five years over spills in the Niger Delta but Shell says it is reviewing the claims and the case should be heard in Nigeria.

The fossil of a microscopic fungus that dates back 440 million years is thought to be the oldest of its kind - and the earliest fossil evidence of land dwellers.

US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko touch down safely in Kazakhstan after almost a year in space.

Seeds of exotic plants illegally collected in the Himalayas are being sold in the UK, a BBC investigation has found.

Millions of images of the moon taken from space

Three British researchers win a one million-euro prize for their work on how memories are stored inside the brain.

Sightings of a large, bright flash in the skies over Scotland prompt 999 calls to police in Aberdeen and Inverness.

The former head of the UN climate change panel (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, is formally charged in court in a case of sexual harassment.

The European Space Agency's Lisa Pathfinder probe begins testing the technologies needed to detect gravitational waves in space.

Environmental law firm ClientEarth warns the government to drastically reduce air pollution or face renewed legal action.

The 2,000-year-old temple at a desert oasis

Scientists are pretty sure we have entered a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene. But when exactly did this "age of humans" really start to shape our planet?

Astronaut Scott Kelly returns home after spending a year in space. He documented his journey on Twitter and Instagram.

Infrared footage shows a female olm - a bizarre, blind amphibian - guarding her eggs in a Slovenian cave.

Scottish Power is planning to double the size of its hydro-electric power plant which creates and stores energy.

A rocket launch by Californian company SpaceX was called off just when the countdown reached zero, as onboard computers raised an alarm.

The California rocket company experiences a dramatic, last-second abort, as onboard computers shut down the engines on a Falcon 9 right at the moment of lift-off.

In a Slovenian cave visited by a million tourists each year, a bizarre and rare amphibian is guarding a significant clutch of eggs.

Sleep paralysis and imagined memories - exploring the edges of human consciousness.

In the ancient city of Nineveh, a statue of a winged bull survived undamaged for 2,700 years - until IS took a pneumatic drill to it last year.

Scottish Power is asking for government support to expand its pumped storage hydro-electric power plant.

The number of Monarch butterflies travelling thousands of kilometres south for winter is 'inspirational' conservationists say.

Prof Sir Paul Nurse says that research in the UK would suffer if the country decided in the forthcoming referendum to leave the EU.

A leaking natural gas well in southern California vented almost 100,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere before it was plugged.

Can Serbia's agricultural traditions survive?

The seas around the UK and other parts of northern Europe take up about 24 million tonnes of carbon a year - the mass equivalent to two million double-decker buses.

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest Muslim burials in France.

Footage from the Australian Antarctic Division shows the Aurora Australis at Mawson station before the ship broke free of its mooring

Scientists have drawn inspiration from the bumpy shells of Namib desert beetles to improve the collection and transport of water droplets.

Astronomers pinpoint the source of an explosive 'fast radio burst' for the very first time, and use it to measure the density of the cosmos.

The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant hit by the 2011 tsunami admits it should have announced a nuclear meltdown at the site sooner.

Astronomers publish a detailed map of where dense, very cold gas - the stuff of which new stars are made - is found across the Milky Way.

A Google-owned robotics company builds a humanoid that demonstrates remarkable balance - even when taunted by humans.

Astronauts in the 1960s say they heard "weird music" coming from the far side of the moon.

Air pollution contributes to about 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK, doctors warn, with tobacco, deodorants and wood-burning stoves among the causes.

Human-induced climate change is triggering changes in phytoplankton communities that could have a long-term effect on marine food webs, a study suggests.

The use of gas for electricity generation in the UK may have to decline significantly over the next 30 years, according to a new study.

A study of 12,000-year-old DNA shows that the fearsome, car-sized, club-tailed glyptodonts were cousins of modern armadillos.

Astronaut Tim Peake pays tribute to Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown, who died at the age of 97, saying he was "the greatest test pilot who ever lived".

Will one of Jamaica's most popular music forms help to keep Zika at bay?

The man who made 'the worst video game in history'

The man leading the "Northern Powerhouse" project tells the BBC there is no guarantee that investing billions in infrastructure will help the North of England.

Evidence of violent storms that destroyed a lost town known as Britain's Atlantis are uncovered.

Sir Richard Branson unveils a new version of his Virgin Galactic Spaceship.