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All indigenous languages can be traced to a mother tongue dubbed Proto-Australian, researchers say.

Consumers in England will get money back for returning plastic and glass containers in a bid to cut waste.

The James Webb Space Telescope will not now be launched until May 2020 at the earliest.

Hunting pressures mean brown bear cubs now spend an extra year with their mothers, say scientists.

It's 50 years since the death of Yuri Gagarin, the Russian Cosmonaut who was the first man to travel into space.

The Cambridge physicist's last broadcast interview covered gravitational waves from neutron star mergers.

The European Space Agency will work with Finland's ICEYE on ways to exploit its novel radar satellites.

Meena was raised a ‘good Indian girl' who was expected to get married, but she's off to Antarctica.

Measurements show the entire bulk of Europe's most active volcano is edging eastwards, Scientists say.

A new study investigates how early a warning can be issued for major earthquakes.

Rescuers manage to return just six surviving pilot whales to deeper waters in Western Australia.

About 150 animals wash up on a beach south of Perth, prompting a major rescue effort.

Students will be graded numerically on a scale from 9 to 1.

A new museum dedicated to IK Brunel reveals the man behind the carefully cultivated public image.

British scientists think DNA could be used to solve a global problem - where to store all our data.

VR has suffered from an image problem, so could very high resolution headsets be the answer?

Scientists investigate an unusual, small, mummified skeleton from Chile to establish is medical history.

It is estimated some 80,000 tonnes of plastic is circulating in a patch between Hawaii and California.

The Nasa robot this week celebrates 2,000 martian days investigating the surface of the Red Planet.

Sheffield City Council's plan to fell thousands of healthy trees prompts angry protests.