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Updated | 2025-07-02 03:15 |
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Is the lorry driver of the future a piece of software?
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The planned flight of the sun powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, has been postponed.
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Islamic State's capture of Palmyra in Syria threatens the last surviving colony of the northern bald ibis in the Middle East, experts says.
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Beavers should be resident in Scotland says the National Trust as it announces its support for reintroduction projects.
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In what will be its greatest challenge yet, the zero-fuel aeroplane Solar Impulse will soon try to fly non-stop from China to Hawaii - a journey of more than 8,000km across the Pacific Ocean.
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The first round-the-world solar-powered flight, known as the Solar Impulse Two, is hoping to make the next and most difficult leg of its journey.
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Renowned mathematician John Nash, subject of the film A Beautiful Mind, dies in a New Jersey taxi crash with his wife.
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Jonathan Amos gets a first peek inside the UK aerospace laboratory where Europe's ExoMars rover will be assembled.
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Purring spiders use leaves as microphones and speakers to transmit their purring courtship song to a female, scientists find.
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Professor David Siveter from the University of Leicester explains how a 425 million year-old parasite was frozen in time at a site in Herefordshire.
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Dogs may have been domesticated much earlier than previously though, Swedish researchers suggest.
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Researchers discover the 425-million-year-old remains of a new species of parasite - still clamped to the host animal it invaded.
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Thousands of species of the ocean's tiniest organisms are revealed in a series of studies.
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Satellites have recorded a big sudden change in the behaviour of glaciers on the Antarctica Peninsula, according to a UK-based team.
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Clean-up crews are working around the clock as investigators look into how tens of thousands of gallons of oil spewed into the sea off Santa Barbara.
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Swedish researchers say that dogs may have been domesticated much earlier than some studies suggest.
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New research reveals that a girl buried 3,400 years ago in Denmark who became one of the country's best-known Bronze Age relics was probably born in Germany.
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The Large Hadron Collider is smashing protons at the highest energy ever attempted - but they are only test collisions, as the LHC continues to gear up its second run.
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The UK strawberry industry is expected to smash its sales record this year by £50m.
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The El Nino event predicted for later this year has the potential to increase food prices, say climate scientists.
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Stones tools that are 3.3 million years old have been unearthed pre-dating the earliest-known humans in the Homo genus.
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Three firms working in very different fields make the 2015 shortlist for the MacRobert Award, the UK's longest-running engineering prize.
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Scientists hold a dedication ceremony to inaugurate the Advanced Ligo facilities, which will be trying to detect gravitational waves from some of the most violent events in the cosmos.
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The UK is among the worst countries in the EU for protecting its wildlife habitats, says an official report.
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Animal protection groups and marine scientists say they have successfully suspended the recording of a TV series called "Dolphins with the Stars".
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Organic farms act as a refuge for wild plants, offsetting the loss of biodiversity on conventional farms, a study suggests.
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The Inuit people of Greenland are challenging an EU ban on seal hunting and the trade in seal meat and skins, arguing it has "crashed" the Inuits' economy.
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US researchers say that they can distinguish individual right whales based on the sound of their vocalisations.
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A titanium floor will protect the Bloodhound supersonic car from a maelstrom of grit when it tries to break the land speed record later this year.
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New discoveries about ash clouds could help predict where planes can safely fly following volcanic eruptions, Edinburgh researchers find.
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UK scientists take science lectures to the pub in the Pint of Science festival in 12 cities across the country.
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A project will see thousands of schoolchildren experiment on seeds that have spent six months on the International Space Station.
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Scientists have figured out how to brew morphine using the same kit used to make beer at home.
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British astronaut Tim Peake invites schoolchildren to help him in an experiment to learn more about how to grow food in space.
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A project is underway that uses tourist photos to make 3D digital reconstructions of artworks destroyed by IS in Iraq.
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Where mobile phones are banned for 13,000 square miles
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Open Air Laboratories (Opal), the citizen science network, is expanded and will now includes projects in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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The roll-out of Inmarsat's Global Xpress network, the UK's biggest commercial space venture, is facing several months of delay because of a Russian rocket failure.
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The chief executive of Unilever, Paul Polman, urges governments to set clear targets to force low-carbon innovation.
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Hundreds of people in kayaks and small boats stage a protest in the north-western US port of Seattle against Arctic oil drilling by Shell.
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A breeding programme is being set up for the rare Tansy beetle, which is threatened with extinction.
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A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite malfunctions and burns up over Siberia soon after launch on Saturday, Russia's space agency says.
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