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An initiative called the African Seed Access Index is launched to help improve smallholder farmers' access to a wider variety of food crop seeds.
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Nasa cameras have captured images of an X-class flare, the strongest category of Sun storm possible, and they are the first of its size in 2015.
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The Hubble telescope obtains compelling evidence that Ganymede - the largest moon in the Solar System - has an ocean beneath its icy crust.
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Cornwall is set to become a training centre for space mission operators with a new course at Goonhilly earth satellite station.
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Devon's wild beavers will be allowed to stay on the River Otter after being found clear of a disease.
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New research shows that rather than using pigments, chameleons change colour by tweaking the arrangement of crystals in their skin cells.
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The first truffle to have been cultivated on UK soil is harvested from a field in Leicestershire.
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Sarah Brightman reveals she has been working with former husband Andrew Lloyd Webber on a song she can perform while aboard the International Space Station.
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BBC Horizon trails one of science's greatest quests
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Video from Nasa shows how emissions could affect cloud formation and weather patterns.
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A record-breaking attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane completes its first leg, a 12-hour journey in the Gulf to Oman.
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As local authority budgets are finalised this week, councils have to make tough decisions on where to spend public money,
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Up close and colourful - beautiful and intricate scientific images
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Plans to install energy saving smart meters in every UK home and business by 2020 risk veering off track, an influential group of MPs warns.
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Physicists pin down precisely how pipe-shaped cells in our retina filter the incoming colours.
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Nasa confirms that its Dawn probe has gone into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Archaeologists and officials express outrage about the reported bulldozing of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants.
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The US space agency's Dawn probe is set to go into orbit around Ceres. What will it find there?
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Why the Sun Tracer could be the greenest way to heat water in your home.
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The team scouring the ocean floor to find MH370
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US researchers build tiny electronic scaffolds using a new technique aimed at merging biology with electronics.
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Science is being squeezed out of English primary schools, with a third not providing the recommended two hours of teaching a week, research suggests.
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Genetic influences on autism are estimated to be between 74-98%, a Medical Research Council study of 258 twins suggests.
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Bumblebees in the wild are infected with many diseases found in honeybees kept by bee keepers, according to a national survey.
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People affected by river flooding worldwide could triple by 2030, with climate change and population growth the main factors, says a new report.
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The effort to build a synchrotron - a large accelerator that generates X-rays for research - in Africa is gaining momentum, a US conference hears.
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Talking Movies' Tom Brook meets the director of the documentary How to Change the World - a film which focuses on the early days of Greenpeace.
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The greatest threat to China's wild elephants is no longer poaching but habitat destruction.
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Scientists working in Ethiopia have uncovered a jawbone fossil which may push the origin of humans back 400,000 years.
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Prince William condemns illegal wildlife trading in a speech on the final day of his tour of China.
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Prince William condemns illegal wildlife trading and calls for more international help in a speech on the final day of his tour of China.
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The government's financial management of London's Kew Gardens is "a recipe for failure", MPs warn.
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Wild bumblebees are infected with many of the diseases found in honeybees looked after by bee keepers, according to a national survey.
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The Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that a government scheme to keep the lights on could lead to unnecessarily high energy costs.
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The government's financial management of Kew Gardens is a "recipe for failure", a Select Committee report warns.