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    Creatures of the Very Deep

    Octopuses that live 4 kilometres beneath the sea surface have just been discovered.

  2. Europe鈥檚 Coldest Decade

    Europe's coldest decade 1430-1440, which caused famine and hardship across the continent.

  3. Do Martian Rocks Contain Signs of Life?

    Are fossilised rock structures on Mars made by microbes?

  4. More Evidence that Lucy Climbed Trees

    The bones of hominin Lucy, show she may have walked upright, but she still climbed trees

  5. How Dung Beetles are a Cattle Farmers Best Friend

    A sticking plaster that can record, analyse and monitor dysfunctional heartbeats

  6. Exciting Geology of Chicxulub Crater

    The immense geological upheaval created by the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs

  7. Record-breaking Air Pollution in Delhi

    Understanding the huge spike in levels of particulate matter in the air over Delhi

  8. Italian Earthquakes Are Part of a Sequence

    How the recent Italian earthquakes are linked and what this says about what happens next

  9. Halloween Science

    Science with a spooky edge 鈥� bacteria in blood, spiders' silk, and venom stealing virus

  10. Has the Latest Mars Lander Failed?

    The ESA lost contact with its Schiaparelli Mars lander 鈥� has it crashed?

  11. The Earliest Birds Probably 鈥楺uacked鈥�

    Finding the oldest fossilized syrinx, a bird鈥檚 equivalent of a voice box.

  12. Nobel Prizes for Science 2016

    Nobel Prizes for mini machines, cellular dustbins and strange materials

  13. Rosetta鈥檚 Mission Ends

    ESA鈥檚 Rosetta mission to study a comet hopes to gather scientific data right up to the end

  14. The Antikythera Mechanism and the Ship Wreck

    More archaeological evidence collected from the 2000 year old Antikythera shipwreck.

  15. Making Babies Without Eggs?

    Scientist make healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into fertilising 鈥渇ake鈥� egg.

  16. Emotional Breath in the Cinema

    In the cinema, we broadcast our emotions into the air in the form of chemical signals.

  17. The Oldest Life on Earth

    Life on Earth might have started even earlier than we thought, 3.7 billion years ago

  18. Nearest Star has Earth-Sized Planet

    An Earth-sized exoplanet has been discovered to be orbiting our nearest star, Proxima

  19. Tracking Poverty

    Identifying Africa鈥檚 poor regions using satellites reveal places where help is needed most

  20. Nerve Recovery in Brain Machine Interface Patients

    Paraplegic patients using robotic legs and training on a BMI showed some nerve recovery

  21. Sun-tracking Sunflowers

    Could the internal clocks in sunflowers be the reason they track the sun across the sky?

  22. Record Temperatures in Kuwait and US

    Kuwait City hits 54 degrees

  23. Smashing into the Moon

    Space ballistics explain one of the Moon鈥檚 huge craters

  24. Wildfires 鈥� What can Science Tell Us About Them?

    Can science help us to understand wildfires like the fire in Alberta, Canada?

  25. Robotic Ray

    A miniature robotic ray built from heart cells is able to swim & spin when guided by light

  26. Antarctic Ozone Hole Is Finally Closing

    The ozone hole is Antarctica is slowly healing after ban of chlorine-based chemicals

  27. Electric Wind on Venus

    The discovery of a strong electric wind on Venus could explain why Earth鈥檚 twin is so dry

  28. Mapping the Ocean Floor

    What鈥檚 being done about mapping the topography under the oceans?

  29. Fast Storage of CO2 in Volcanic Rock

    Volcanic rock converts carbon dioxide quickly, effectively locking away the greenhouse gas

  30. The Peppered Moth Mutation

    The mutation that caused the peppered moth to go black is identified and dated to 1819.

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