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Two judges are asked to leave a Swedish panel that picks the Nobel prize for medicine in a scandal over a disgraced Italian transplant surgeon.

New research suggests air pollution could be contributing to diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Much of Earth's life-giving carbon could have been delivered in an asteroid collision about 4.4 billion years ago, a theory suggests.

Ice taken from a retreating Alpine glacier is moved into a freezer at the start of a mission to store it permanently in Antarctica.

Ice taken from a retreating Alpine glacier is moved into a freezer at the start of a mission to store it permanently in Antarctica.

Europe's comet lander Philae, last seen in November 2014, has been identified in new pictures from the Rosetta probe.

Freddie Mercury is honoured with an asteroid named after him to mark what would have been his 70th birthday.

Human skulls and other artefacts found aboard the Tudor shipwreck, the Mary Rose, are being exhibited online for the first time.

Researchers have captured images of an extremely rare white southern right whale calf off swimming with its mother off the coast of Western Australia.

The fossilised skeleton of a 170 million-year-old Jurassic predator discovered on the Isle of Skye is being unveiled in Edinburgh.

Pressure is growing on the UK government to ratify the Paris climate change deal immediately.

For the first time, skulls and other artefacts from the 1545 wreck of the Mary Rose warship are being exhibited online, as part of a project testing the limits of digital archaeology.

Grace Livingstone talks to members of Mapuche indigenous communities living near a fracking site in Argentina about their concerns for their health and their environment.

Decades of conservation efforts by China lead to a rise in the number of giant pandas, as they are taken off the endangered species list.

Millions of honeybees have been killed in South Carolina after pesticide was sprayed to kill off mosquitoes that could be harbouring the Zika virus.

Lun Lun, a 19-year-old giant panda, has given birth to twins - she also had twins in 2013.

China's top legislative body ratifies the Paris global climate agreement, ahead of an expected joint announcement with the US.

Microbeads used in bathroom products are expected to be banned by the government by the end of next year.

NASA has released spectacular images of Jupiter that have never been seen before.

The US space agency releases pictures and other data from the Juno probe, which has just made its first close approach to Jupiter since going into orbit in July.