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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.

The solar farm will generate enough electricity for about 2,500 homes, its backers said.

As pub chain Wetherspoons phases out plastic straws for waste reasons, is it time we scrapped them?

The world's botanic gardens contain a third of all known plants and help protect 40% of endangered ones.

Australia is to be the third launch partner on the UK's innovative new small radar satellite, NovaSAR.

US firm Planet Labs makes satellites you could hold in your hands, and has more in orbit than anyone else.

Despite signs that numbers of giant pandas are rising, suitable habitat has shrunk, satellite data shows.

The country is one of the few major developed nations not to have a dedicated agency.