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Sightings of a large, bright flash in the skies over Scotland prompt 999 calls to police in Aberdeen and Inverness.
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The former head of the UN climate change panel (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, is formally charged in court in a case of sexual harassment.
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The European Space Agency's Lisa Pathfinder probe begins testing the technologies needed to detect gravitational waves in space.
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Environmental law firm ClientEarth warns the government to drastically reduce air pollution or face renewed legal action.
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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?
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Astronaut Scott Kelly returns home after spending a year in space. He documented his journey on Twitter and Instagram.
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Infrared footage shows a female olm - a bizarre, blind amphibian - guarding her eggs in a Slovenian cave.
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Scottish Power is planning to double the size of its hydro-electric power plant which creates and stores energy.
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A rocket launch by Californian company SpaceX was called off just when the countdown reached zero, as onboard computers raised an alarm.
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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.
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In a Slovenian cave visited by a million tourists each year, a bizarre and rare amphibian is guarding a significant clutch of eggs.
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Sleep paralysis and imagined memories - exploring the edges of human consciousness.
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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.
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Scottish Power is asking for government support to expand its pumped storage hydro-electric power plant.
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The number of Monarch butterflies travelling thousands of kilometres south for winter is 'inspirational' conservationists say.
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Prof Sir Paul Nurse says that research in the UK would suffer if the country decided in the forthcoming referendum to leave the EU.
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A leaking natural gas well in southern California vented almost 100,000 tonnes of methane into the atmosphere before it was plugged.
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Sperm have been made in the laboratory and used to father healthy baby mice in a move that could lead to infertility treatments.
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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.
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Researchers have identified what may be the earliest Muslim burials in France.
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Footage from the Australian Antarctic Division shows the Aurora Australis at Mawson station before the ship broke free of its mooring
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Scientists have drawn inspiration from the bumpy shells of Namib desert beetles to improve the collection and transport of water droplets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Google-owned robotics company builds a humanoid that demonstrates remarkable balance - even when taunted by humans.
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Astronauts in the 1960s say they heard "weird music" coming from the far side of the moon.
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The biggest fireball since the Chelyabinsk explosion has plunged through the atmosphere over the Atlantic Ocean.
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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.
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Human-induced climate change is triggering changes in phytoplankton communities that could have a long-term effect on marine food webs, a study suggests.
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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.
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A study of 12,000-year-old DNA shows that the fearsome, car-sized, club-tailed glyptodonts were cousins of modern armadillos.
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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".
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Will one of Jamaica's most popular music forms help to keep Zika at bay?
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The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
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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.
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Evidence of violent storms that destroyed a lost town known as Britain's Atlantis are uncovered.
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Sir Richard Branson unveils a new version of his Virgin Galactic Spaceship.
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The El Niño weather phenomenon is set to decline over the next few months but scientists say that a La Niña event could start later this year.
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The UN's top climate diplomat, Christiana Figueres, will leave her post in July, having played a key role in the successful Paris climate negotiations.
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A polar bear breeding project in Scotland takes a step forward with the arrival of a crate for moving a male bear to a female's enclosure.
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The legendary abilities of goats and sheep to digest a wide range of inedible materials could help scientists produce cheaper biofuels.
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A Bronze Age wheel described as an "unprecedented" find is unearthed at a site dubbed "Britain's Pompeii".
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Sir Richard Branson is preparing to unveil a new version of his Virgin Galactic space ship after months of preparation in the Mojave desert in California.
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Neuroscientists add fresh insight to the famous observation that people are content to hurt others if they are ordered to do so.
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US lead climate negotiator warns of significant diplomatic consequences if a new President pulls out of the Paris climate agreement.
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Extremely dry conditions have caused masses of tumbleweed to pile up outside homes in rural Australia.
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A fast-growing tumbleweed called "hairy panic" is clogging up homes in a small Australian town.
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