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The future scientific relationship is the European Research Council's biggest challenge, new head says.

Astronomers want more public funds to help search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

US researchers call for more regulation around the sale of sex robots with artificial intelligence.

Smoke from wildfires may have long-term health effects, according to US research on juvenile monkeys.

Mysterious archaic hominins may have interbred with early humans in West Africa, scientists say.

Communities on the coast face "serious questions" against the background of climate change.

As sea levels rise, difficult decisions are being made about which communities to save.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic rocket plane transfers to New Mexico for final testing.

The government wants to collect 35,000kg of waste - along with bodies - from six Himalayan peaks.

The temperature was recorded on an island off the Antarctic continent's northern tip.

When it comes to love stories, what makes a great novel a classic rather than a guilty pleasure?

Relatives and co-workers live in fear after two monarch butterfly activists were found dead in Mexico.

Scientists say they have overturned the prevailing theory of how the planets in our Solar System formed.

Experts are developing a better knowledge of the brain by studying tissue left over from surgery.

Driver Andy Green describes what needs to be done to achieve a land speed record.

An expert identified the tiny gnats from tens of thousands of creatures caught in an insect trap.

The US space agency is looking for new astronauts to join future missions to the Moon and Mars.

The UK government's new business secretary will also lead this year's big UN climate meeting.

The US space agency reprocesses the Voyager probe's iconic "Pale Blue Dot" picture of Planet Earth.

The turtle is believed to have lived in northern South America between 13 and seven million years ago.