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Stunning photographs of starry nights over South East Asia

With concern about the decline of bees in the UK, the University of London has created an oasis for the insects on a rooftop.

A look back at the things we learned from David Attenborough's latest BBC One series Planet Earth II.

A new campaign led by medical professionals is calling for all diesel cars to be banned from London.

The world's largest cold energy storage plant, which can act like a giant battery for renewable energy, is being commissioned at a site near Manchester.

Japan launches a cargo ship equipped with a half-mile long magnetic tether to clear space junk.

Japan launches a cargo ship carrying a space junk collector designed to gather debris in space.

Planet Earth filmmakers talk dancing flamingos and bears

Scientists have found a 100 million year old dinosaur tail trapped in amber.

Tiny crustaceans previously recorded at two locations in the British Isles are found in a loch near Kinross.

Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, dies aged 95. Pallab Ghosh looks back at the day he made history.

Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, dies aged 95.

A sample of the smallpox virus from a 17th Century victim challenges current thinking.

Giraffes have been classified as vulnerable to extinction. Chester Zoo says humans are to blame.

The population of the world's tallest land mammal, the giraffe, is shrinking. Chester Zoo says humans are to blame.

The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber from Myanmar.

Historians unveil a digitally-reconstructed image of the face of Scottish king Robert the Bruce nearly 700 years after his death.

Red fire ants could wreak more damage than rabbits, cane toads and foxes combined, experts warn.

A dramatic drop in the giraffe population over the past 30 years leaves them vulnerable to extinction.

Humans may in part owe their big brains to a DNA "typo" in their genetic code, research suggests.