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Scientist and author Richard Dawkins discusses his legacy - and giving up Twitter

Darren Soh, a landscape photographer, creates a composite image that captures the beauty of Singapore's lightning storms.

The ban on GM crops by European countries should be reassessed, the president of UK science body the Royal Society has said.

An application to carry out fracking in England for the first time since a ban was lifted in 2012 is approved.

After a successful bid to frack for shale gas in a North Yorkshire village, John Moylan explains how the process works.

Wild animals including lions, crocodiles, rattlesnakes and zebras are being kept legally on private property across the UK, licensing figures reveal.

Nobel chemistry laureate spots DNA error on Turkish banknote.

A strange sea-dwelling reptile fossil suggests there was a burst of evolution after the mass extinction 250 million years ago.

BBC science correspondent Rebecca Morelle travels to China to take a close up tour of the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope - or Fast for short.

Drone footage shows tourists catching an unusual sight in Shark Bay, Australia - dozens of tiger sharks feeding on a dead whale.

India launches an unmanned model space shuttle into orbit, joining the race to develop reusable space crafts.

The zero-fuel aeroplane, Solar Impulse, has landed in Dayton, Ohio, after flying from Oklahoma on the latest leg of its round-the-world journey.

A gigantic fuel tank, originally built for NASA's space shuttle programme, is making a slow journey through the streets of Los Angeles to its new home.

They have been dubbed the killer invaders that target bees and have even caused the deaths of several people in France, but has the deadly Asian hornet made it to the UK?

Two independent scientific papers identify the same single gene as the cause of red beaks and feathers in birds.

The Hubble Space Telescope produces another of its stunning portraits of Mars, as the planet lines up with the Earth and the Sun.

Councillors in North Yorkshire will consider whether to approve fracking in England for the first time since a ban on the technique was lifted in 2012.

Miniature flying robot that can perch and take off could be used in search and rescue, scientists say.

Footage has captured an eagle owl chick in Croatia meeting a human for the first time.

A global revolution in the use of antimicrobials is needed, according to a government backed report.

Bayer is offering to buy agricultural giant Monsanto in a deal that could create the world's biggest supplier of seeds and pesticides.

Scientists suggest that at least two huge tsunamis once swept across the Red Planet, triggered by large impacts.

A leaked New Zealand government memo casts serious doubts on the sustainability of fish that are widely used in McDonald's restaurants.

A study finds unchecked climate change could destabilise Antarctica's huge Totten Glacier in the coming centuries, pushing up global oceans by 2m, or more.

Neuroscientists find that when we navigate a train network, our brains split the task into a hierarchy of different jobs - a strategy that AI developers want to mimic.

A new report says that global agricultural emissions must be slashed to prevent the planet warming by more than 2C over the next century.

The Zika virus could spread to Europe this summer, although the likelihood of an outbreak is low to moderate according to the World Health Organization.

The EU's new Sentinel-2a satellite builds a cloud-free view of Africa as it moves towards full capacity mapping.

Life was already organising itself into large communities of cells more than a billion years ago, new evidence from China suggests.

A bright fireball lit up the sky across several states in the US early on Tuesday - and was captured on a police officer's dashcam.

Beautiful places threatened by mass tourism

Britain's first astronaut says the UK risks becoming a "backward nation" if the government does not pay to send more people into space.

UK universities could find it harder to recruit international students if the UK leaves the EU, suggests a survey.

In a major genetic study, scientists trace the historic global spread of a cancer transmitted between mating dogs.

Officials at Yellowstone National Park reveal that they had to put down a newborn bison after some tourists put it in the boot of their car.

Nissan Qashqai cars built at the firm's Sunderland plant in the UK were fitted with so-called emissions defeat devices, South Korean officials allege.

April was the seventh month in a row to have broken global temperature records, Nasa figures show.

The effects from riding four 'gyroscopes'

India is to divert water from major rivers like the Brahmaputra and the Ganges to deal with severe drought, a senior minister tells the BBC.

Thousands of Australian aircraft enthusiasts have watched the world's largest plane, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, arrive in Perth.

By 2060 more than a billion people worldwide will live in cities at risk of catastrophic flooding as a result of climate change, a UK charity warns.

Andre Brahic, one of the people who discovered the rings of Neptune, has died aged 73, his publisher says.

The new chief executive of the RSPCA, Jeremy Cooper, says the charity has made mistakes in the past and in future will be "less political".

Bones and stone tools from deep beneath a river in Florida betray the presence of humans 14,500 years ago.

Dung beetles record a mental image of the positions of celestial bodies and use the snapshot to navigate, say researchers.

UK satellite manufacturer SSTL reaches a key milestone in its work on Galileo, shipping its 22nd navigation payload for Europe's version of GPS.

Dramatic video of Costa Rica's Turrialba Volcano erupting has been captured with an infrared camera.

Solar Impulse has landed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ending stage 11 in its round-the-world journey.

A migratory bird has shrunk in stature as temperatures warm in its Arctic breeding ground, according to research.