Nobel Prize-winning scientist Frances Arnold retracts paper
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Australia fires: A visual guide to the bushfire crisis
Record-breaking temperatures and months of severe drought have fuelled a series of massive bushfires across Australia.The fires, burning since September,...
Climate change: Last decade UK’s ‘second hottest in 100 years’
Image copyright Getty Images A series of new records for high temperature were broken in the UK in 2019, concluding...
The scientist powering drones with ‘happy gas’
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWATCH: Hydrogen-powered drones could point way to future air travelWhen you think...
Belching in a good way: How livestock could learn from Orkney sheep
Image copyright Fionn McArthur The northernmost Orkney island, North Ronaldsay, is home to just 50 people and 2,000 sheep. Since...
Tackling the Earth’s orbiting space junk
Here's a quiz question: what do using road navigation systems, keeping time consistent around the world and having accurate stock...
Climate change hope for hydrogen fuel
Image copyright PA Image caption Natural gas can be blended with hydrogen for a greener mix A tiny spark in...
Writing a ‘national anthem’ for Mars
An Indian former software analyst who’s now a rising star in the opera world has written a new "national anthem"...
Chandrayaan-3: India plans third Moon mission
Image copyright EPA Image caption The chairman of India's space agency says the new mission could happen this year India...
Palau is first country to ban ‘reef toxic’ sun cream
Image copyright Benjamin Lowy / Getty Image caption The Rock Islands in Palau The Pacific nation of Palau has become...
Earthshot Prize: William and Kate launch prize to ‘repair the Earth’
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited a melting glacier in Pakistan in October The...
York to ban cars from city centre
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The scheme to ban private cars aims to cut pollution and congestion Private cars...
Skomer Island managers seek ‘fit and hardy’ staff
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Skomer Island is home to about half of the world's population of Manx shearwaters...
When Greta Thunberg met Sir David Attenborough
Greta Thunberg and Sir David Attenborough have met for the first time (via Skype as they did not want to...
The best space images of 2019
With some blockbuster space missions under way, 2019 saw some amazing images beamed back to Earth from around the Solar...
The best science long reads of 2019
From the search for new dinosaur skeletons in the "Badlands" of Wyoming, to the push to return humans to the...
Action over roadside rubbish thrown out of car windows
A law could be strengthened to punish people who throw litter out of a vehicle window in Wales.It would mean...
‘Gardening gives me a lot of peace’
Joanna is one of a growing number of urban gardeners trying to reconnect with nature in the high-rise, high-pressure environment...
