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President Putin pressed the launch button for four missiles in the exercise, the Kremlin said.

Some of the 500 species of spiders that live in Wales are found almost nowhere else in the world.

A dinosaur from China had a "bandit mask" pattern in the feather on its faces, fossil analysis has shown.

The 'world's fastest car' goes through its first public tests ahead of a land speed record attempt.

The person is likely to have died in Papua New Guinea about 6,000 years ago, scientists say.

Neil MacGregor explains how an extraordinary journey was made possible by the largest silver objects ever produced.

The British-led Bloodhound vehicle is scheduled to conduct some slow-speed trials in Newquay, Cornwall.

The fossil, which is 152 million years old, is the first ichthyosaur found in India.

Hundreds of thousands of fish are being taken out of one of the Midlands' largest reservoirs.

The studies could lead to new treatments for inherited diseases.

Leprosy found in red squirrels is also found in pre-Norman bones in Suffolk and Scandinavia.

Aberystwyth University scientists work to make manmade sea defences a better home for Nature.

An exec producer of Blue Planet II reveals why not all of the series was filmed in the wild.

An interview with Lord Lawson should have been challenged, the corporation's complaints unit says.

We need to be more concerned than ever about how society uses scientific discoveries, says Venki Ramakrishnan.

In parts of southern Africa drones are being used to protect elephants and rhinos from poachers

US astronaut Paul Weitz, who helped save a Nasa space station after it was damaged during launch, has died aged 85.

Marine archaeologists say the object - discovered off the coast of Oman - is an astrolabe.

The story behind a small ivory sculpture that was carved 40,000 years ago.

Nicaragua signs the Paris agreement, leaving only two countries not supporting it.