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IBM wants to open out quantum computing to the business community and increase usage for programmers.

Air pollution is in the news - but how bad is Britain’s air?

The surgeon carried out the first successful liver transplant in 1967 and helped normalise the surgery.

14-year-old Logan is helping monitor his city's air - and the results may change your habits.

David Shukman examines the effect that air pollution has on our bodies.

Supporters of fracking say the UK should extract its own gas - rather than import it from Peru.

SpaceX is sending two tourists to the moon, but when can the rest of us look forward to space travel?

Two skulls found in China shed light on the ancient humans who inhabited the region before the arrival of our own species.

US study reveals how much trees help tackle urban air pollution

Scientists have found something - but no one will admit to causing it.

Scientists have created a functioning mouse embryo in the lab

Ancient Amazon peoples planted a vast number of trees for food or building materials, a study argues.

The last woolly mammoths were wracked with genetic disease and had a strange shiny coat, say scientists.

Europe's medium-range weather forecasts will cease to be constructed in the UK from 2020.

One of the Large Hadron Collider's huge detectors has been given what officials describe as a "heart transplant".

The government's long-delayed 25-year plan for improving nature in England should be published immediately, MPs say.

African elephants living in the wild sleep for the shortest time of any mammal, according to a study.

Scientists use lasers to analyse how the sound of Big Ben's "bongs" is created.

Scientists identify 208 new minerals that owe their existence wholly or in part to humans.

Researchers discover fossils of what may be some of earliest living organisms.