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What happened to travelling by hovercraft?

Global temperatures are set to rise more than 1C above pre-industrial levels in 2015, according to the UK's Met Office.

The IAAF will on Monday learn the findings of an independent report into claims of doping cover-ups in Russian athletics.

An ancient pear tree due to be chopped down to make way for the HS2 high-speed rail line is voted the best in England.

US President Barack Obama rejects an application to build the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada because it will not help the economy, he says.

How a plane crash is investigated

The environmental pressure group Greenpeace says its charitable registration to operate in India has been revoked.

Does the smiling face of Layla Richards mark a new era in genetic medicine that could change all our lives?

British astronaut Tim Peake says he hopes his mission to the space station will generate excitement similar to that seen during the Apollo Moon missions.

Timelapse footage has emerged showing a huge shelf rolling onto mainland Australia from the sea. Courtesy Sarah Estela.

In December history will be made when Tim Peake becomes the first official, government backed, British astronaut to go to the International Space Station.

The BBC's Nick Higham meets Steve Silverman, the winner of this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.

Nasa's Maven satellite records how the upper atmosphere at Mars is being removed through its interactions with the Sun.

The first person in the world to receive a pioneering genetic therapy has shown a remarkable reversal of her cancer.

Scientists unearth a haul of reptile and amphibian fossils in Brazil, dating from 278 million years ago when the continents were joined.

Photographers trying to capture stags clashing antlers during rutting season could be threatening the herd's future in a London park, wardens warn.

Remarkable high-definition images of the sun taken by Nasa's space-based telescope, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have been released.

A man has died with cancerous growths of mutated parasitic worm tissue growing in his organs, doctors report.

Physicists have shed new light on one of the greatest mysteries in science: Why the Universe consists primarily of matter and not antimatter.

The UK plutonium stockpile at Sellafield represents "thousands of years of energy in the bank" says a leading scientist.

Ornithologists ask the public to help survey garden goldfinches, in an effort to work out if feeding is driving up the birds' population.

Ornithologists ask the public to help survey garden goldfinches, in an effort to work out if feeding is driving up the birds' population.

Honeybees that were once the stuff of legend among bee enthusiasts are playing a key role in a fight against diseases fatal to the insects.

Scientists in Japan have developed a type of glass that 's harder than some metals.

A debate is unfolding about the finding, published in February, that chimpanzees can adapt their grunts to communicate with new neighbours.

Professional footballers have worryingly poor teeth that could be affecting their performance on the pitch, say dentists.

Cockroaches are usually associated with dirt and disease, but they are inspiring the design of new robots, prosthetic limbs and antibiotics.

As the International Space Station celebrates 15 years of astronauts living on board, Chris Hadfield tells the BBC what life is like.

The International Space Station is marking the 15th anniversary of humans being on board.

Ten long-finned pilot whales are found stranded on a beach in Calais, with three surviving and returning to sea.

BAE Systems buys a 20% stake in a company developing a radical engine that could propel aircraft into space.

An "extremely well preserved" family burial vault is discovered "accidentally" at Gloucester Cathedral.

Why don't people see the yeti any more?

A dig in Jersey yields a stash of hunter-gatherer artefacts, including engraved stones which may pre-date all known ancient art in the British Isles.

There is concern that England's only wild beavers have disappeared.

An asteroid called TB145 will pass within a few hundred thousand kilometres of the earth.

A new design for lithium-air batteries overcomes several hurdles that have stood in the way of this "next-generation" concept.

Marine wildlife experts believe dolphins attacked a young pilot whale which was found stranded on a beach in Skye.

The UN says the current climate plans from 146 countries represent a significant advance - but will not be enough to prevent dangerous warming.

BBC Click's LJ Rich looks at some of the best of the week's technology news.

Puffins and turtle doves are among four UK bird species now at risk of extinction, according to the latest revision of a global conservation database.

Senior Buddhists have called on world leaders to agree a new climate change agreement at a conference in Paris next month.

The Rosetta spacecraft discovers molecular oxygen in the cloud of gas surrounding Comet 67P prompting a rethink on the origins of the Solar System.

Authors of a study on lion populations believe many are in rapid decline and the animal should now be classified as endangered in parts of Africa.

How a couple in Taiwan has built a farm solely from recycled materials including wood, glass and newspapers.

How do you stop the horn trade?

The Cassini spacecraft has made a final ultra-close flyby of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to "taste" the water it is spewing into space.

Engineers in Bristol develop a system that holds and moves small objects without touching them, using "holograms" built from sound waves.

Six pairs of giant panda twins, born in China's Sichuan province, make their public debut.