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Astronomer Vera Rubin, whose pioneering work led to the theory of dark matter, dies at 88.

A new study estimates there are just 7,100 now left in the wild as the wide-ranging mammal faces growing conflict with humans.

UK scientists have decoded the genome of the ash in the fight against a devastating plant disease.

A selection of the best science and environment reads this year.

Could wave energy ever power the world?

A UK designer launches the "30-year Christmas sweatshirt" to question the ethics of the "fast fashion" industry.

Temperatures at the North Pole could be up to 20 degrees higher than average this Christmas Eve.

British-born astronaut Piers Sellers has died of pancreatic cancer, aged 61, Nasa says.

A British team is in the final stages of designing its car for next year's World Solar Challenge in the Australian desert.

Some dinosaurs shed their teeth as they grew up, according to fossil evidence.

For the first time scientists have been able to track the high-flying insects that migrate across the skies of Southern England every year.

Two baby orangutans have been rescued from the back of a taxi in Thailand.

Threatened by habitat loss and hunting, Madagascar's lemurs, a critically endangered species, are finding refuge in a private sanctuary.

From the first direct evidence for black holes, to a rocky planet circling a neighbouring star, 2016 was packed with amazing science stories.

Japan scraps a 22-year-old experimental nuclear reactor that has cost $9bn but barely ever worked.

Baby gorilla Afia born in a rare emergency caesarean section cuddles up to her surrogate mother.

Barack Obama has permanently banned offshore drilling in the "vast majority" of northern US waters.

Direct recordings have revealed what happens in our brains as we make sense of speech in a noisy environment, scientists say.

Uncertainty over the nature of the UK's future relationship with the EU is having a "corrosive" effect on science.

Surgeons describe a new treatment for early stage prostate cancer as "truly transformative".