BBC News - Science & Nature
The latest stories from the Science & Environment section of the BBC News web site.
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Particle detector heads for launch
The $1.5bn Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer arrives in Florida to make it ready for launch to the space station.
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Brazil green light for Amazon dam
Brazil's government approves the controversial construction on a tributary of the Amazon of the world's third biggest hydroelectric dam.
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Kepler spies Saturn-sized worlds
Nasa's Kepler space telescope detects two large planets orbiting a star some 2,000 light-years from Earth.
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Frog skin could beat 'superbugs'
Frog skin may be an important source of new antibiotics to treat superbugs say researchers.
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How Galicia dealt with an oil spill
Can the recovery of the Galician coast provide inspiration for the fishing and tourism industries in the Gulf of Mexico?
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Asia's smallest frog discovered
Scientists discover one of the world's tiniest frogs when it crawls out of a pitcher plant in a Borneo national park.
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Oldest evidence of arrows found
Researchers in South Africa have revealed the earliest direct evidence of human-made arrows.
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Female scientists 'are forgotten'
Two-thirds of the British public are unable to name a famous female scientist, according to a poll organised by the Royal Society.
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Alps Iceman may have been buried
Oetzi, the 5,000 year old "Iceman", may have ceremonially buried in the Italian Alps, archaeologists say.
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Illegal trade
Halting flow of illegal eggs and birds into the Gulf states
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Dolphins 'cough' up DNA secrets
A new technique to harmlessly extract DNA from dolphin "breath" could assist conservation efforts aimed at marine mammals.
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Motorway bridges built for dormice
A council in South Wales has spent almost £200,000 so that dormice can cross a road safely.
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New hope to restore lost vision
Custom-made "biosynthetic" corneas can restore vision in humans as well as donor corneas a new study reveals
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Supercomputer clue to black holes
The colossal black holes that reside in galaxies were probably formed shortly after the Big Bang, new research suggests.
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Energy drinks 'to power gadgets'
Living cell parts have been used to create electricity from chemicals in devices that could one day be fuelled by energy drinks.
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France drains lake under glacier
French engineers begin an operation to drain a lake that has formed under a glacier on Mont Blanc, and which threatens to flood a valley below.
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US military 'hit in cyber strike'
A 2008 cyber attack launched from an infected flash drive in the Middle East penetrated secret US military computers, a top Pentagon official says.
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