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The New Horizons mission returns its first colour image of Pluto's atmospheric hazes and shows them to have a blue tinge.
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The European Food Safety Authority publishes its initial risk assessment of using insects as a source of protein for human consumption and animal feed.
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The 48-million-year-old fossilised remains of a horse foetus have been described by scientists.
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Europe's fundamental physics space mission, Lisa Pathfinder, arrives in French Guiana to prepare for its December Launch.
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New images from the European Southern Observatory have revealed mysterious ripples around a star close to Earth.
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A reassessment of ancient rocks leads scientists to estimate that Earth's inner core started to form earlier than was previously thought, around 1.3 billion years ago.
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Corals worldwide are at risk from a major episode of bleaching caused by natural currents and man-made climate change, scientists warm.
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Scientists in the United States say the world's coral reefs are being attacked by a phenomenon that's only occurred twice before in recorded history.
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A new plant has been launched in the UK which its developers say could offer farmers a reliable and profitable crop.
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Israeli Google Lunar X Prize team, SpaceIL, signs a contract to send a lander to the Moon - the first competition group to formally lodge a launch contract.
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The Russian space agency releases footage of cosmonauts juggling fruit in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.
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A project to help one of Europe's most endangered bat species is awarded £707,000 of National Lottery funding.
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Fergus Walsh examines the threat of air pollution to public health.
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Engineers are hoping to use drones to plant in areas that have been deforested
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Hoesung Lee of South Korea is elected as the new chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Scientists publish a second batch of papers on Homo naledi, the creature whose remains were sensationally found deep inside a South African cave.
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The 2015 Nobel Prize in physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald, who discovered that neutrinos switch between different "flavours".
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A team of international scientists have discovered a new species of rat in Indonesia.
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A diesel engine run in a lab shows just how far manufacturers' emissions tests fall short, scientists say.
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A carnivorous plant uses raindrops as a power source to bounce ants into a trap, researchers find.
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See how a carnivorous pitcher plant uses raindrops as a power source to fling ants to their death.
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A global assessment concludes that almost one-third of cactus species face extinction due to unsustainable harvesting and illegal trade.
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The Chernobyl exclusion zone now has more wildlife than before the 1986 nuclear accident, researchers say.
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Chile announces the creation of two new marine reserves off its coast which together will cover more than a million sq km.
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One man's mission to upload 13,000 photographs that Nasa said it didn't have the resources to publish.
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Many shoppers in England will have to pay 5p for plastic carrier bags from Monday in a bid to slash the 7.6 billion handed out every year.
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Scientists have discovered a species of ancient mammal that survived the event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Photos shortlisted for Royal Society of Biology prize
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Farmers in Michigan uncover a woolly mammoth skeleton in a soybean field.
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A global collaboration will aim to unravel the mysteries of neutrinos - also known as "ghost particles".
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Ponies on Dartmoor are to have reflective paint put on them in a scheme that aims to cut the number being killed by vehicles.
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Chemical engineers develop an additive for jet fuel that could prevent explosions without compromising engine function.
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A massive sinkhole opens up on a street in St Albans, forcing the evacuation of several families during the night.
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A satellite designed to provide high-speed internet services to 200,000 Australians living in rural areas is launched from South America.
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