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Research shows some EU countries “import” about a third of their carbon emissions from developing countries.
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.
Fish are seen eating plants that have sunk to the seafloor, changing our understanding of ocean food webs.
Scientists have discovered a dinosaur-like creature 10 million years older than the earliest known dinosaurs.
There are more genes in the microbial flora in our gut than in the rest of our bodies, scientists report.
A large space rock may have exploded over Antarctica thousands of years ago, according to new research.
The European Commission clears a genetically modified potato for cultivation in the EU – only the second GM product allowed.