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The US aerospace company SpaceX successfully lands a reusable rocket on an ocean platform, after four previous attempts failed.
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Tata Steel is refusing to comment on claims it has made £700m windfall profits from a policy designed to protect the climate.
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Experiments show how ribose - an important sugar for life - can form when a simple icy mixture is hit by UV light.
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An online competition to become the "chief wombat cuddler" of a baby wombat in Tasmania, has made the tiny marsupial something of a celebrity.
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Incompatibilities in the DNA of Neanderthals and modern humans may have limited the extent of interbreeding between the two groups.
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While reporting from the Antarctic, the BBC's Victoria Gill takes a dip in the near-freezing sea.
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Reducing food waste and changing the way people consume calories will help deliver a sustainable food system and reduce emissions, a study suggests.
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British scientists who have set up a network of penguin-monitoring cameras in Antarctica are asking the public to help them carry out their research.
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How a newly launched Antarctic citizen science project allows young amateur explorers to adopt and monitor their own penguin colony.
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Two studies confirm that multiple supernovae have showered the Earth with radiation within the last few million years.
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A team of technologists working with Microsoft and others produce a 3D-printed painting in the style of Dutch master Rembrandt.
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Red deer on the outer Scottish islands were probably brought there in boats by Neolithic humans from as far away as mainland Europe, according to a study of ancient and modern deer DNA.
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Red deer on the outer Scottish islands were probably brought there in boats by Neolithic humans from as far away as mainland Europe, according to a study of ancient and modern deer DNA.
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A hunter in the US tells the BBC how he shot an 800lb (360kg) "monster alligator" that was feasting on his farm's cattle.
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An expedition gets under way to drill into the Chicxulub Crater, the deep scar made in the Earth's surface by the asteroid that hastened the end of the dinosaurs.
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An expedition gets under way to drill into the Chicxulub Crater, the deep scar made in the Earth's surface by the asteroid that hastened the end of the dinosaurs.
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Scientists say they have kept a pig heart alive in a baboon for more than two years.
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Scientists say they have kept a pig heart alive in a baboon for more than two years.
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Scientists may be closer to revealing the route taken by Hannibal as he crossed to Alps to attack ancient Rome.
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Scientists may be closer to revealing the route taken by Hannibal as he crossed to Alps to attack ancient Rome.
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An animal welfare charity attempts to trap a raccoon that was spotted several miles from where one was filmed in the Scottish Highlands.
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A government consultation on whether to change the rules governing how contractors deal with protected species when developing sites ends this week.
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A government consultation on whether to change the rules governing how contractors deal with protected species when developing sites ends this week.
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Vitamin D supplements may help people with a failing heart, a study suggests.
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Vitamin D supplements may help people with a failing heart, a study suggests.
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A newly discovered 430 million-year-old creature appears to have dragged its offspring around on strings, like underwater kites.
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A newly discovered 430 million-year-old creature appears to have dragged its offspring around on strings, like underwater kites.
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Space transportation company Blue Origin say they have successfully launched and landed a suborbital rocket, which is capable of carrying six passengers, for the third time.
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Meet the man who shoots 30,000 wallabies a year
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New rules governing how contractors deal with protected species could mean great crested newts remain in their current habitats.
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The average English-speaker has about 50,000 words in their mind. But how do they find the right one in 600 milliseconds?
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As calls for African science investment get louder, the BBC meets some of the continent’s world-beating young researchers at a forum in Senegal.
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Scientists create artificial skin, made from mouse stem cells, that integrates successfully and even sprouts hairs when transplanted into another mouse.
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Scientists create artificial skin, made from mouse stem cells, that integrates successfully and even sprouts hairs when transplanted into another mouse.
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Perfectly backlit by our star, Comet 67P was photographed in dramatic fashion this week by the Rosetta spacecraft - 260 million km from Earth.
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A turtle in Seattle has undergone experimental therapy involving a hyperbaric chamber to try and treat its buoyancy disorder.
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Hundreds of the most common bird species in Europe and the US are having their populations altered by climate change, according to scientists.
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Wildlife officials express concern as white-nose syndrome, which has killed millions of bats in eastern US, is detected on the country's west coast.
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The world's two largest carbon emitters have issued a joint statement confirming that both countries will sign the Paris Climate Agreement next month.
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We should shine lasers into space if we want to hide our presence from alien civilisations, two US-based astronomers suggest.
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Zookeeper Lynsey Bugg, who has been caring for a baby gorilla until she can be reunited with her mother, has been talking about how she looks after her.
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A rescue centre in Indonesia is trying to rescue Sumatran tigers and save the species from extinction.
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Sea levels could rise by more than double the current estimate over the next 100 years, according to a new analysis of climate change in Antarctica.
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The diminutive human species nicknamed "the Hobbit" probably went extinct at least 50,000 years ago - not the 12,000 years ago initially thought to be the case.
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A new tadpole that burrows through sand is discovered in the Western Ghats of India, scientists report.
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UK researchers build a device the size of a postage stamp that measures tiny fluctuations in gravity and could help monitor volcanoes or search for oil.
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A 13-year-old girl from Lancashire with diabetes says she has taught her dog, Pip, to sniff out changes in her blood sugar levels.
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Scientists and engineers in Japan are scrambling to save a satellite and more than a quarter of a billion dollars of investment tumbling out of control in space.
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Scientists say a 305 million-year-old fossil is the closest ancient relative to "true spiders" ever discovered.
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