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EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.
EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.
The UN Secretary-General asks the world’s leading science academies to review the UN’s climate science body.
The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.
Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists.
The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned.
Research shows some EU countries “import” about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries.
Skynet 5, the UK’s single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces.
Former Labour and Conservative science ministers challenge the next UK government to maintain investment in science.
A plant-eating predator that preys on aggressive superweed Japanese knotweed is to be given a trial release in England.
A Tory-backed report urges incentives for schools and tax breaks for researchers to raise the profile of science.
Scientists may have identified the first specks of interstellar dust in material collected by the Nasa Stardust spacecraft.
The UK Met Office says evidence that human activity is causing climate change is stronger now than in a 2007 assessment.
An international panel of experts has strongly endorsed the idea that an asteroid impact was responsible for killing off the dinosaurs.
The government is promising to put in place measures to protect the future funding of physics and astronomy in the UK.