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VIDEO: Buzz Aldrin: We will settle Mars
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin thinks humans can not only land on Mars by 2019, but also colonise the red planet.
Ada Lovelace: Letters shed light on tech visionary
Rarely-seen letters shed light on Victorian tech visionary
Next two years hottest, says Met Office
The next two years could be the hottest on record globally, says research from the UK's Met Office.
VIDEO: How El Nino affects global weather
An El Nino climate event is under way that could potentially become one of the strongest since 1950.
VIDEO: Cosmonaut sets space time record
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka returns to Earth after setting a new record for for the most time spent in space.
VIDEO: The fight to save the British bee
How the public are helping scientists understand and stem the decline of British bees through the Buzz Club.
Student's cool plastic electronics
A newly published study on components for flexible electronics was co-authored by a sixth-form student in Surrey.
The world's biggest manmade wave
Scientists in the Netherlands have built a vast new machine that can create the world's largest artificial wave to put flood defences to the test.
VIDEO: Creating world's biggest manmade wave
Scientists at the Deltares Research Institute in the Netherlands have built a machine that creates the world's largest artificial wave.
New Horizons resumes image return
New pictures are released from the New Horizons flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto, as the probe starts its big data dump to Earth.
Minister's climate joke caught on mic
Australia's immigration minister Peter Dutton has come under fire for making light of rising sea levels affecting Pacific Island nations.
Two more Galileo satellites launched
Europe continues the roll-out of its Galileo sat-nav system with the launch of a further two spacecraft from French Guiana.
The truth behind AI fiction
How evil and clever will real robots become?
VIDEO: Japan plagued by natural disasters
The widespread flooding in north-east Japan is just the latest in a recent run of natural disasters to affect Japan.
'Unsent letter' to aliens planned
A group of 20 UK researchers decides to compose a message to aliens - but they are split over whether such a message should be sent into space.
Ocean plants 'can help freeze clouds'
Scientists say secretions from tiny ocean plants could play a significant role in the formation of ice in clouds.
Oldest rickets case in Neolithic woman
The earliest known case of rickets in the UK has been identified in a 5,000-year-old skeleton found in Scotland.
VIDEO: Is Homo naledi a new missing link?
Scientists have discovered a new human-like species in a cave in South Africa.
New human-like species discovered
Scientists in South Africa have discovered a new human-like species, which could change ideas about our early relatives.
GM embryos 'essential', says report
It is "essential" that the genetic modification of human embryos is allowed, according to a global group of scientists, ethicists and policy experts.
Campaigner urges rethink on fracking
Environmentalists should keep cool heads over fracking, says Bryony Worthington - Friends of the Earth's former climate campaigner and now Labour shadow energy minister.
3D barcodes target counterfeiters
Engineers in Yorkshire have developed a system of 3D barcodes made from tiny indentations with variable heights, which could help tackle counterfeiting of drugs, watches or automotive parts.
VIDEO: CRISPR genome editing 'important tool'
Prof Emmanuelle Charpentier spoke to BBC News on the potential of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system as a tool for research and treatment of disease.
Eye test to spot future sports stars
Scientists are looking for a link between visual processing and sporting performance, and their battery of tests could help with talent spotting.
Ceres' bright spots in sharp detail
The US space agency's Dawn satellite returns its best views yet of the enigmatic bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres.
China aims for Moon's far side
China is planning to attempt the first ever landing of a lunar probe on the far side of the Moon, an engineer has said.
Social insights from whale chatter
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.
Real deal or meal deal? Will new climate treaty be a 'nothing burger'?
Will new climate treaty be a 'nothing burger'?
Science goes in search of the perfect wave
How science is helping to improve surfing
The coming of the glacier men
Is it time to look for frozen climbers, as the ice melts?
Former minister backs clean air app
Former science minister Lord Drayson launches a smartphone app that monitors local air quality and encourages people to choose cleaner ways to travel.
Public given chance to name UK storms
Members of the public are being given the opportunity to name storms affecting the UK and Ireland.
Online fossil hunters to comb desert
Archaeologists invite the public to help hunt for fossils in Africa's arid Turkana Basin, via a new online citizen science project.
'Rivers of acid' in Zambian villages
The villagers taking on a copper mine over polluted water
DNA cracks puzzle of Basque origins
DNA from ancient remains appears to have solved the puzzle of one of Europe's most enigmatic peoples: the Basques.
Orbital 'peg in the hole' tests works
European astronaut Andreas Mogensen remotely operates a robot on Earth while flying aboard the International Space Station.
'Biggest' Stonehenge site uncovered
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 animates animals
Motion capture technology is improving the biomechanical accuracy of animals, particularly horses, in films and gaming.
'Decisive year' for world's forestry
The world's forests face a 'decisive year' as nations prepare to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals and gather for key climate talks.
VIDEO: Hidden monument 'a unique find'
Archaeologists discover at least 100 standing stones buried at a site just a few kilometres from Stonehenge.
VIDEO: 'Superhenge' found by researchers
Archaeologists have discovered at least a hundred stone monoliths near Stonehenge, buried just a metre beneath the ground.
VIDEO: Underwater living experiment revisited
Revisiting the story of the divers who experimented with living at the bottom of Plymouth Sound in the Glaucus pod 50 years ago.
VIDEO: Rwanda ceremony for mountain gorillas
A ceremony has taken place in Rwanda, where 24 baby mountain gorillas have been given new names.
'Snail's pace' row at climate talks
UN climate officials have reacted sharply to criticism that the talks to land a new global deal are going at a "snail's pace".
Gravity quest set to go into orbit
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.
Hinkley Point nuclear plant delayed
Energy giant EDF has admitted that construction of Britain's first new nuclear power plant in decades has been delayed.
Hints of compromise at climate talks
Rich nations at UN climate talks are said to be edging towards a compromise on the thorny issue of loss and damage.
Science and maths 'vital for adults'
Adults who lack basic science and maths skills risk being "bamboozled" and making bad decisions, according to a leading scientist.
Frosty relations over future of the Arctic
US and Russia at odds over the Arctic
Chris the sheep 'sets new record'
An overgrown sheep dubbed Chris, found wandering near Australia's capital, sets an unofficial world record for the heaviest fleece.
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