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Microplastics have swamped our ecosystem. Can tech help prevent them entering our water systems?

A copy of the physicist's signed PhD thesis sells for £584,750, nearly four time the guide price.

As concern grows about climate change and resources, is it time to re-use more of our junk?

Scientists spent several days trekking through rural Borneo to find the 40,000-year-old artwork.

The earliest known painting of an animal has been identified in a cave on the island of Borneo.

Mushrooms for lunch inspire scientists to try to generate electricity from a fungus covered in bacteria.

The joint Europe-Russia mission to the Red Planet in 2020 needs a destination to go do its science.

A new study raises hopes of saving one of the last animals of its kind - the northern white rhino.

Europe is sending up a front-line weather satellite containing components made over a decade ago.

The ozone layer is finally healing from damage humans have caused, according to the United Nations.

Bullying and harassment helpline could help people working in the sciences.

Hollywood director Ron Howard talked to the BBC about creating a realistic depiction of the first human colonies on Mars.

A new study says that big hydro electricity projects in Europe and the US have been disastrous for the environment.

Coloured eggs evolved millions of years ago in the dinosaurs and may have functioned as camouflage.

The DNA secrets of a flower thought to have inspired a Greek legend have been cracked by scientists.

A team at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh create a "crystal maze" to control how light spreads.

Christa Larwood visits the UCL Pathology Museum usually reserved for the eyes of medical students.

The world is losing plants at an unprecedented rate with around one in five thought to be at risk of extinction. The race is on to store back-up copies in seed banks.

Why trees grown in test tubes could be the answer to preserving the world's forests for the future.

The animal in western India is said to have killed 13 people and evaded capture for two years.