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The UK's hardiest snow patch melts for what is thought to be only the seventh time in 300 years.

Suzie Imber, who beat 11 people to the prize, is "excited" she could "one day end up in space".

More than 100,000 people have fled their homes as they wait for Bali's Mount Agung to erupt.

The British-led project to build a 1,000mph car reaches a key milestone in its development.

New Zealand's forest used to be home to millions of kiwi. Now there are only 68,000 left.

The entrepreneur says his new rocket could fly people to Mars or move them rapidly between cities.

Creator of ChemStart, Bathabile Mpofu, takes hands-on scientific experiments into schools in South Africa.

Hundreds of Japanese species have been found on US coasts, swept there by the deadly 2011 tsunami.

The process begins of scoping new spacecraft for the Sentinel Earth observation network.

A team in Bangalore has entered the Google Lunar X Prize to land a rover on the Moon.

Sir Paul Nurse says this kind of technique could be done in the UK.

A major citizen science project will spread virtual flu with the aim of understanding how to stop the real thing.

Four times larger than regular rodents, a large, tree-dwelling rat has been found in the Pacific.

A Chinese team corrected the potentially fatal blood disorder beta-thalassemia.

Conservationists push the UK to make its remote South Sandwich Islands a protected sanctuary.

Ripples in the fabric of space-time are sensed again - this time using three different laser systems.

The BBC is going under the waves with David Attenborough in a second series of Blue Planet, which was first shown in 2001.

Diprotodon, an extinct Ice Age marsupial of Australia, would trek long distances each year for food.

The ex-chief scientist says the government should be made to enshrine a zero-emissions target in law.

The Parker Solar Probe is going to be the first spacecraft to journey deep into the sun's atmosphere.