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The European Space Agency has signed a contract to build a prototype drill and chemistry lab that will be flown on a Russian mission to the Moon in 2021.

A new meat-eating dinosaur has been discovered in Argentina that possessed stubby arms like Tyrannosaurus rex.

A Bronze Age village dubbed "Britain's Pompeii" which yielded an "extraordinary window" on the period burnt down after just months, it emerges.

So many tree species are present in the Amazon basin that it would take 300 years to catalogue them all, scientists say.

Marine scientists from Israel and California have developed a microscope that for the first time provides a window into the small scale behaviour of marine life.

This koala has heterochromia, so its rescuers called it Bowie; David Bowie actually had anisocoria, unequal pupil sizes.

The Sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse finishes its penultimate flight, landing in Egypt's capital, Cairo, after a 48-hour flight from Seville.

The American space agency's new Juno mission to Jupiter returns its first imagery since going into orbit around the gas giant last week.

Neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts have shown a small difference that may explain why the universe did not destroy itself during the Big Bang, scientists have reported at major conference.

People can carry a "silent" red hair gene that raises their risk of dangerous skin cancer, experts warn.

Grass species of crops adopt an "austerity" strategy and limits the development of its root system during times of drought, a study reveals.

How non-human archaeology revealed ancient evidence of monkey tool-use.

Climate change could have a domino effect on key infrastructure, government advisers warn in a 2,000-page report assessing risks and opportunities for the UK.

Capuchin monkeys in Brazil have used stone tools for at least 700 years, according to scientists.

The zero-fuel aeroplane, Solar Impulse, has begun what should be its penultimate flight, leaving Seville in Spain bound for Cairo in Egypt.

Radiation levels in the Pacific are almost back to their pre-Fukushima levels (except around Fukishima itself), and are expected to have fully recovered by 2020.

Archaeologists in Israel say they hope the discovery of a Philistine cemetery will shed new light on the mysterious migrant people.

An archaeological dig is under way on what experts say is a very rare undisturbed Bronze Age burial mound in Lancashire.

Russian, American and Japanese astronauts enter the International Space Station.

The Victoria Derbyshire programme discusses the controversial use of homeopathy by vets as more than 2,300 people sign a petition calling for the treatment to be banned.

Scientists have designed a robotic stingray powered by light-activated muscle cells.

About 1,000 of the UK's vets sign a petition calling for a ban on homeopathy being prescribed to animals.

Foreign fishing vessels operate illegally off the coast of Guinea, depleting its fish population and destroying marine life. Despite the economic and social consequences of illegal fishing, the Guinean government has failed to police its waters because it doesn't have money to operate surveillance equipment, as the BBC's Tamasin Ford reports.

A doomed Japanese satellite managed to capture a spectacular view of a cluster of galaxies 250 million light years away just before it died, scientists reveal.

A month-old male giant panda cub in Belgium's Pairi Daiza wildlife park is growing fast and gaining weight - but still not quite standing up.

The government’s climate change advisors have given a cautious green light to fracking in the UK.

Global per capita fish consumption passes the 20kg per year mark for the first time, but natural marine resources continue to be overfished, UN data shows.

How a celebrated milestone for the spoon-billed sandpiper turned to sadness.

Fossils of a sea worm that lived on the ocean floor about 500 million years ago are giving new insights into how early creatures evolved.

In July 1996, scientists in Scotland created the world’s first animal cloned from an adult cell

After its much heralded re-start last year, has the Large Hadron Collider found a new particle?

Gardeners searching the web for advice on the best way to tackle Japanese knotweed are likely to find confusing and contradictory advice, a study says.

Random shifts in the paths of Atlantic storms during the summer are more responsible for changes in temperatures than greenhouse gases, according to a new study.

The US space agency's Juno probe puts itself in orbit around Jupiter after a five-year-journey.

The US space agency has successfully put a new probe in orbit around Jupiter.

The UK is almost certain to miss its EU 2020 targets for renewable energy, the National Grid says.

Meet the furry stars of Singapore who live in Marina Bay, the heart of Singapore's central business district.

What has been the human and scientific impact of cloning since Dolly the sheep's birth in 1996?

The US space agency says its Juno probe is in good shape as it prepares to orbit Jupiter and begin a survey of what lies beneath the giant planet's obscuring clouds.

Dr Chris Lintott explains why he's looking forward to Juno's arrival at Jupiter.

The Bloodhound supersonic car project is back on track thanks to new sponsorship, and now aims to break the land speed record in October 2017.

China has fitted the final piece on what is set to be the world's largest radio telescope, the size of 30 football fields and worth $180m (£135m).

The BBC's defence correspondent Jonathan Beale finds out more about the development of new military technology, including whether a drone can be chemically "grown".

This lion's role on a farm in northern Russia will surprise you.

When the US space agency’s latest probe to Jupiter tries to enter into orbit around the planet on Tuesday, it will be relying on a British rocket engine.

UK science is one of the biggest winners from Britain's membership of the EU. Now it stands to lose the most from Brexit.

Three orangutans rescued from forest fires in Indonesia are returned to the wild by International Animal Rescue workers.

Prof Sir Tom Kibble is posthumously awarded the highest UK honour for physics.

Futurologist Alvin Toffler predicted everything from the rise of the Internet to the decline of the nuclear family, but he wasn't always right

Researchers say they have found the first clear evidence that the thinning in the ozone layer above Antarctica is starting to heal.