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An ancient reef may provide scientists with clues about what will happen to coral when sea temperatures rise.
An ancient reef may provide scientists with clues about what will happen to coral when sea temperatures rise.
A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage – by the ants that live on it.
There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking concludes in a new book.
The collision of two major weather events can explain unusually large snowfall in the US and Northern Europe, researchers say.
Physicists explain one of football’s most spectacular free-kicks, showing that Roberto Carlos’s 1997 “impossible goal” was not a fluke.
Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica.
A further test ignition takes place on the giant booster intended to power Nasa’s next big rocket.
The theory that the great beasts living in North America 13,000 years ago were killed off by a space impact can now be discounted, a new study claims.
The vast majority of biofuels sold on UK forecourts are imported and do not conform to environmental standards, figures show.
Fossils of a new type of dinosaur, which looks like a beefy version of the predatory Velociraptor, have been unearthed in Romania.
The UN’s climate science body needs stricter checks to prevent damage to its credibility, an independent review concludes.
A team of 86 global scientists sequence the genetic code of the Golden Delicious apple for the first time.
A coalition of 10 NGOs urges the International Whaling Commission to persuade the World Health Organization to act over fears about eating whale meat.
The dinosaurs were wiped out by at least two meteorite impacts rather than a single strike, say scientists.
The draft sequences of the wheat genome released by UK scientists may prove to be a vital contribution to the efforts of securing global food supply.
A two-month-old tiger cub is found sedated and hidden among stuffed toys in a woman’s luggage at Bangkok’s international airport.
The $1.5bn Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer arrives in Florida to make it ready for launch to the space station.
Nasa’s Kepler space telescope detects two large planets orbiting a star some 2,000 light-years from Earth.
Researchers in South Africa have revealed the earliest direct evidence of human-made arrows.
Even the most extreme geoengineering approaches will not stop sea levels from rising due to climate change, a study suggests.
A new technique to harmlessly extract DNA from dolphin “breath” could assist conservation efforts aimed at marine mammals.
Microbes taken from a cliff face in the English fishing village of Beer survive for a year-and-a-half on the outside of the International Space Station.
Astronomers have uncovered evidence for massive planetary collisions around several binary stars
Astronomers discover a planetary system with at least five planets orbiting a star much like our Sun.
Charles Darwin may have been wrong to argue that competition was the major driver of evolution, a study suggests.
The European Space Agency is battling to recover its Goce gravity satellite which has been struck by a second computer glitch, blocking data delivery to Earth.