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A Nasa spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet detects a mysterious aurora that reaches deep into the Martian atmosphere.
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Negotiations are opening on a £1bn tidal lagoon scheme in Swansea as the chancellor gives his Budget speech in the House of Commons.
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A DNA study of Britons shows that, genetically, there is not a unique Celtic group of people in the UK.
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The Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, have been creating a fabulous show across large parts of the Britain, and across the globe.
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Nobel-winning structural biologist Venki Ramakrishnan is elected to become the next president of the Royal Society.
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Solar Impulse, the solar-powered plane attempting to fly around the world, completes the first leg in a two-hop flight from India to Myanmar.
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Europe will not be mounting a sample-return mission to an asteroid, having rejected the MarcoPolo concept at the third time of asking.
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The UK government is to establish the largest marine reserve in the world around the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific.
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Building the dome to encapsulate Chernobyl
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The Mexican authorities have introduced a new law banning certain animals - among them tigers, elephants and zebras - from performing in circuses.
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A solar plane started the third leg of its round-the-world journey on Wednesday as it took off from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
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The Northern Lights - or Aurora Borealis - have been creating a fabulous show across large parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Mercury pollution has risen nearly 50-fold in the feathers of a gull that feeds and breeds in the Arctic, say scientists.
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Conservationists eagerly await the results of a UK study investigating whether it is possible to track endangered shark species via environmental DNA.
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Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has created an exhibit about the unique images and objects that brought us the first close up photos of space.
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Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step foot on the moon, has sent a 'message to the Red Planet' from Stonehenge.
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Scientists obtain the most detailed views yet of ice deposits inside the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole.
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A new method of 3D printing that uses light and oxygen to 'grow' solid objects was inspired by the Terminator 2 film.
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Using brain scans, neuroscientists describe how recalling a particular memory can cause us to forget a related one.
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The UK's first large-scale hedgehog sanctuary opens in Solihull as conservationists warn the number of hedgehogs in the UK has dropped dramatically.
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Scientists from the Rosetta mission may have solved the puzzle of features on Comet 67P that look like they were produced by wind.
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Scientists discover a large crater on the Earth-facing side of the Moon - the first detection of its kind in at least a century.
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Scientists are trying to work out how and why the penguin's waddle evolved.
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The East of England could become a hub for trade in renewable energy with Scandinavia if the proper rules are in place, says an expert.
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Farmers in developing nations bear a 'major brunt' of natural disasters yet only receive a small percentage of post-disaster aid, says a UN report.
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The first large-scale hedgehog sanctuary in the UK, covering some 90 hectares, is being opened in Solihull, West Midlands.
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Scientists are trying to work out how and why the penguin's waddle evolved.
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Large Hadron Collider goes after dark matter
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Former students occupy an Oxford building to protest the university's failure to decide about divesting funds from fossil fuels.
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Votes can now be cast in an online poll to choose what could become Britain's first national bird.
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A team of conservationists have highlighted the plight of endangered eagles by filming a record-breaking bird flight from the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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Conservationists are preparing an eagle for a world record attempt in Dubai, to raise awareness of the plight of the endangered bird of prey.
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The process begins of machining the fastest wheels in automotive history for the Bloodhound Supersonic Car project.
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A UK artist is using the science of microbes to inspire her work.
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Data from the International Energy Agency suggests that growth in global carbon emissions stalled last year - the first time this has happened without a major economic downturn.
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America’s chief climate negotiator, Todd Stern, says the Paris summit will not solve climate change - just set nations on the right path.
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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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A volcanic eruption in Tonga in January leads to the creation of a new island in the Pacific, some 500m across and 250m high.
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A mammoth effort to list all known marine life shows many species had duplicate entries in previous databases.
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Video footage has been released which show the volcano eruption off Tonga which led to the creation of new Pacific island.
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A new fossil discovery shows that a giant ancestor of modern lobsters used spiny 'limbs' on its head to sift food from the ocean.
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Is reintroducing the big cat to Britain a good idea?
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