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The US space agency's Dawn mission to Ceres has released its first colour map of the dwarf planet.
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More than 50 UK university leaders will travel to Brussels on Monday to lobby European policymakers against possible cuts to research funding.
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Malta in a referendum narrowly rejects proposals to ban controversial spring hunting, during which migrating birds are shot before they can breed.
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Maltese bird hunters celebrate narrow referendum victory
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Man's love-hate relationship with snow leopards
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Parts of England see soaring levels of air pollution, amid health warnings for vulnerable people.
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Nasa names an asteroid after schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
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An abandoned dock in east London is being transformed into a wildlife haven
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A new tracking study shows that young sea turtles make a concerted effort to swim in particular directions, instead of drifting with ocean currents.
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Nearly 150 melon-headed whales, a species of dolphin, have become stranded on a beach in Japan.
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The first new design of electricity pylon in almost 90 years has been erected at a test site in Nottinghamshire.
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BBC Click's LJ Rich looks at some of the best of the week's technology news
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A 90%-complete "terror bird" skeleton found in Argentina suggests these big-beaked predators had good low-frequency hearing and deep voices.
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The biotech start-ups looking at ways to change the way we make food.
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Acidic oceans helped fuel the biggest mass extinction in the history of life on Earth, a study says.
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David Shukman looks at what could be done on air pollution beyond the annual warnings.
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The skull of an adolescent tyrannosaur shows evidence of vicious combat as well as signs that the corpse was eaten by another dinosaur, possibly of the same species.
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Scientists are hoping to find out more about elusive basking sharks by tagging them in waters off Cornwall.
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Three new studies resolve some of the inconsistencies in our understanding of the Moon's birth, including the violent impact that started the process.
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There could be up to 100 billion barrels of oil onshore beneath the South of England, says exploration firm UK Oil & Gas.
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Scientists in Dallas, Texas, have excavated a 100 million-year-old dinosaur fossil discovered by five-year-old Wylie Brys while playing with his father.
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Atlantic salmon numbers have fallen at an alarming rate despite best efforts of conservation
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A study of blind crustaceans living in deep, dark caves shows that evolution is rapidly withering the visual parts of their brain.
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Engineers unveil a flexible aluminium battery which they say could offer a cheap, fast-charging and safe alternative to current designs.
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The iconic name Brontosaurus, which was once used to describe a titanic family of dinosaurs, is being revived after it was killed off more than a century ago.
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The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports from Delhi, considered by the World Health Organization to be the most polluted city in the world last year.
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The Large Hadron Collider restarts after a two-year rebuild, with scientists hoping it will provide answers to fundamental questions about the universe.
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The LHC sets its sights on a new kind of physics
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David Shukman visits the Large Hadron Collider to see the final preparations and look at what the next stage of experiments might discover.
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The deadly battle for the animal more valuable than gold
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Biotechnology start-up companies are increasingly turning to crowdfunding in order to find investors for their business.
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A record number of rhinos were slaughtered for their horns in South Africa last year, and fears are growing for the survival of the species in the wild.
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Astronomers witness a key stage in the birth of a very heavy star, using two radio telescope views of the process taken 18 years apart.
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Biologists are calling on the public to report sightings of rabbits and hares as part of a conservation effort.
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An outline agreement on the future shape of the Iranian nuclear programme is reached after marathon talks between Iran and six major powers.
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The Bloodhound car will be bullet-proof as well as fast
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The satellite Europe will be sending to Mars early next year enters its final test programme.
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Large quantities of plastic debris are building up in the Mediterranean Sea, say scientists.
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A camel, whose intact skeleton has been found in a 300-year-old Austrian cellar, was probably ridden by the invading Ottoman army in 1683.
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The warm weather of 2014 boosted the number of some butterflies, including one of the UK's rarest species, the High Brown Fritillary, a survey has found.
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A novel delivery system for perfume would ensure that a person smells better the more they sweat, scientists have said.
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Engineers create unpowered exoskeleton "boots" that use a spring and a ratchet to make human walking 7% more efficient.
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The Force - the mysterious energy field used by the Jedi in Star Wars - has been discovered by researchers at the Cern laboratory in an April Fools prank.
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EU milk quotas are scrapped, bringing an end to more than 30 years of efforts to prevent overproduction.
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The scale of China's land reclamation in the South China Sea is leading to "serious questions" on its intentions, a top US official says.
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A one-year experiment asks if learning is more about hard work than natural ability
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