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Scientists are looking for a link between visual processing and sporting performance, and their battery of tests could help with talent spotting.

The US space agency's Dawn satellite returns its best views yet of the enigmatic bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres.

China is planning to attempt the first ever landing of a lunar probe on the far side of the Moon, an engineer has said.

Scientists say the way sperm whales learn to chit-chat indicates they are behaving in ways that at some level mirror the operation of human cultures.

Will new climate treaty be a 'nothing burger'?

How science is helping to improve surfing

Is it time to look for frozen climbers, as the ice melts?

Former science minister Lord Drayson launches a smartphone app that monitors local air quality and encourages people to choose cleaner ways to travel.

Members of the public are being given the opportunity to name storms affecting the UK and Ireland.

Archaeologists invite the public to help hunt for fossils in Africa's arid Turkana Basin, via a new online citizen science project.

The villagers taking on a copper mine over polluted water

DNA from ancient remains appears to have solved the puzzle of one of Europe's most enigmatic peoples: the Basques.

European astronaut Andreas Mogensen remotely operates a robot on Earth while flying aboard the International Space Station.

Huge stones found buried near Stonehenge were part of a ritual site built on an "extraordinary scale" and unique in the world, researchers say.

Motion capture technology is improving the biomechanical accuracy of animals, particularly horses, in films and gaming.

The world's forests face a 'decisive year' as nations prepare to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals and gather for key climate talks.

Archaeologists discover at least 100 standing stones buried at a site just a few kilometres from Stonehenge.

Archaeologists have discovered at least a hundred stone monoliths near Stonehenge, buried just a metre beneath the ground.

Revisiting the story of the divers who experimented with living at the bottom of Plymouth Sound in the Glaucus pod 50 years ago.

A ceremony has taken place in Rwanda, where 24 baby mountain gorillas have been given new names.

UN climate officials have reacted sharply to criticism that the talks to land a new global deal are going at a "snail's pace".

Lisa Pathfinder is a fundamental physics experiment that will test the technology needed to detect gravitational waves - what are sometimes referred to as ripples in the curvature of space-time.

Energy giant EDF has admitted that construction of Britain's first new nuclear power plant in decades has been delayed.

Rich nations at UN climate talks are said to be edging towards a compromise on the thorny issue of loss and damage.

Adults who lack basic science and maths skills risk being "bamboozled" and making bad decisions, according to a leading scientist.

US and Russia at odds over the Arctic

An overgrown sheep dubbed Chris, found wandering near Australia's capital, sets an unofficial world record for the heaviest fleece.

A new report says there are three trillion trees on Earth, eight times as many as the previous best estimate.

Researchers say that global efforts to cut carbon are far short of what's needed to avert dangerous climate change.

An autonomous starfish-killing robot will be ready for field trials on the Great Barrier Reef this month, researchers say.

Researchers develop a mathematical model that can help determine the surveillance effort required to detect the arrival of costly invasive pathogens.

Patches of Kielder forest are being turned into a wild laboratories, to work out the environmental triggers for common diseases.

Scientists reveal the secrets behind the trees that can resist wildfires.

This year's El Nino weather phenomenon could be one of the strongest on record according to the World Meteorological Organization.

Trophy hunting has been the subject of much media attention, but is a blanket ban really the answer?

The Buddhist country of Bhutan has won plaudits for its approach to tackling climate change, says Matt McGrath.

President Obama pushes for a global deal on cutting carbon emissions, saying it is time "to protect the one planet we've got while we still can".

Unless something is done to stem the flow of waste to the oceans, virtually every seabird will be ingesting plastic debris by 2050, say scientists.

Scientists develop a way to make ice cream smoother and less likely to melt so quickly on a hot summer day.

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks dies of cancer aged 82

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft has a new target to aim for following its historic flyby of Pluto.

British neurologist and acclaimed author Oliver Sacks dies at the age of 82.

Turks and Caicos Islands debates marine mammal park

Scientists at Newcastle University are going in search of floods, trying to learn what causes them so they can prevent future flash flooding.

A rocket mission to put a new spacecraft in orbit for London-based Inmarsat is declared a success.

A team of Nasa recruits begins living near a barren volcano in Hawaii to simulate what life would be like on Mars.

A team of Nasa recruits begins a year-long isolation in a dome near a barren volcano in Hawaii, to simulate life on Mars.

A UK-built satellite delivered the first orbital picture to US disaster response coordinators following Hurricane Katrina. Ten years on, a British spacecraft has re-imaged the Mississippi Delta.

Pallab Ghosh assesses the evidence for the decision to extend the cull of badgers to control TB in cattle.