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| Updated | 2024-11-25 23:30 |
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Nasa warns that the effects of the current El Nino weather phenomenon could be as bad as that of 1998, the strongest on record.
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Clive Coleman investigates the statutes that have their origins in the Cold War space race.
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Ten of millions of people will face hunger, water shortages and disease in 2016 as the impacts of a powerful El Nino linger into 2016.
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The possibilities exciting our science team in the coming year
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Files released by the National Archives shed light on how prime ministers viewed an official souvenir of moon dust that was given to the country by the US.
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A 2m-tall flower, known for its pungent odour which has been likened to rotting flesh, blooms in South Australia's Mount Lofty Botanic Garden.
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Scientists have sequenced the first ancient human genomes from Ireland - throwing light on the genesis of Celtic populations.
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British astronaut Tim Peake tweets a picture of northern England, taken from the International Space Station, and expresses concern for all those caught up in flooding.
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A British couple have paid £60,000 for two puppies cloned from their dead boxer.
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Conservationists at Chester Zoo have brought one of the world's most endangered birds - the Javan green magpie - into captivity.
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More of our best Science and Environment articles from 2015
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A collection of the best science and environment reads this year
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Rebecca Morelle looks back on the year in science – from a British astronaut blasting off into space, to efforts to halt global warming here on Earth.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake tweets a light-hearted apology after calling a wrong number from the International Space Station and asking "is this planet Earth?".
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Chemists are developing new sensors to sniff out explosives before deadly attacks can occur.
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Populations of Spanish ibex are being pushed to the brink by illegal hunting and disease. Now scientists are using drones in an effort to conserve the threatened species of mountain goat.
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Inmarsat, the British satellite telecommunications company, has awarded the contract to build its next-generation constellation to Airbus.
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Vultures have developed the ability to tap into turbulent air as a way of gaining altitude according to a new study.
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Researchers are encouraging people to buy 'underwater Christmas trees' to help fund the restoration of seaweed that suddenly disappeared in the 1980s.
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Archaeologist Tom Dawson, explains how the public can help to log sites at risk of coastal erosion.
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BBC News catches up with engineers at the University of Cambridge who have developed a prototype game, using remote-controlled airships.
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US defence officials confirm a streaking fireball over the skies of Nevada and California was Russian space debris.
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BBC Weather's Nick Miller looks at how the effects of El Nino are being felt around the world.
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Ecologists observe wild New Caledonian crows making and using hook-shaped tools, thanks to tiny tail-mounted cameras.
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New Caledonian crows have been caught in the act of making and using hook-shaped tools, thanks to tiny tail-mounted cameras.
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A Russian cargo vehicle carrying food and supplies has docked with the International Space Station - just in time for Christmas.
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Dogs can copy each other's expressions in a split-second just like humans, showing the ability to "read emotions", according to Italian researchers.
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The US space agency, Nasa, suspends the March launch of its next mission to Mars because of fault in a key research instrument.
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Conservationists are unveiling their 12 trees of Christmas, in a bid to highlight the plight facing some of the world's threatened conifers.
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The private space technology company SpaceX successfully lands a rocket back on land after a mission into space.
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US company SpaceX lands an unmanned rocket upright after putting satellites into orbit - the first time such a feat has been accomplished.
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A new study says that wild bees in the US are declining in many areas because of increases in the amount of corn being grown for biofuel.
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Going on a spacewalk - what could possibly go wrong?
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Gullies seen on the surface of Mars could be formed by trapped CO2 gas causing sand to flow downhill, a new modelling study suggests.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake helped two fellow crew members carry out a space walk outside the International Space Station on Monday.
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Watch timelapse highlights as Tim Peake helps his crewmates carry out a space walk.
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Photographers as far south as Suffolk capture the Northern Lights as the phenomenon makes a rare appearance in the skies above England.
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Chilean scientists trace a record of fog behaviour in the Atacama Desert stretching back 3,500 years.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake thanks the thousands of well-wishers who sent him a good luck message, as he spends his first weekend in space.
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A study of storks in Britain is being carried out with a view to encouraging them to breed in the wild.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake says his first three days in space have been better than he imagined.
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UK astronaut Tim Peake is giving a news briefing from space, after becoming the first Briton to serve on the International Space Station.
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What is 'Major Tim' doing in his first week in space and beyond?
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More than 300 people were killed when devastating floods hit the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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Scientists have reconstructed how an ancient reptile swam in the oceans at the time of the dinosaurs.
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Scientists say they have solved the 200-year-old mystery of how a reptile that lived at the time of the dinosaurs navigated the oceans.
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