- BBC Science/Nature
- 11/4/8 13:22
Customs officials in Thailand have seized 1,800 protected monitor lizards hidden behind a consignment of fruit.
Customs officials in Thailand have seized 1,800 protected monitor lizards hidden behind a consignment of fruit.
British scientists recall their role in the mission to make the most distant landing in the Solar System
Remembering Yuri Gagarin's visit to the UK
The sounds emitted by stars light years away from Earth have been captured by British astronomers using Nasa's Kepler space telescope.
Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer ice will probably be gone within this decade.
THURSDAY 7. APRIL 2011
Results from the Tevatron particle accelerator in the US show compelling hints of a completely new particle in what could be a radical change to physics.
America and Europe are looking now at flying just one rover to Mars in 2018 and not the two currently being planned.
Workers at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are evacuated after an earthquake but officials say it has no detectable effect.
Rare wild horses are being reintroduced to Scotland to breathe new life into desolate marshlands.
Chimpanzees' contagious yawning suggests they are capable of empathy, say researchers.
A technique that harnesses brain waves directly has been used to control a mouse pointer, heralding mind-controlled "apps" for the severely disabled.
An Edinburgh bistro describes grey squirrel meat as 'the ultimate ethical food' and serves it on its menu.
Wales is set to be the first country to DNA barcode all of its native flowering plants, scientists claim.
UK's first economic downturn may have been over 2,500 years ago
A mass migration of rats is under way into the deserts of Australia after a run of high rainfall seasons, scientists say.
The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
How do you make someone ready to go into space?
WEDNESDAY 6. APRIL 2011
Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams talks about training for her 2006 trip to the International Space Station, where she lived for six months.
Workers in Japan start injecting nitrogen into one of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to prevent more hydrogen blasts.
Inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone 25 years on
A new study supported by conservation charity the John Muir Trust suggests wind farms produce under 10% of capacity for a third of the time.
How safe can human spaceflight ever be?
Genetic tests for conditions such as cystic fibrosis should be available before people become pregnant, says the government's advisory body on genetics.
The number of Falkland skuas has declined by almost half in just five years, a survey of the bird's largest breeding ground reveals.
Attempts to reduce global temperatures by changing clouds' reflectivity may backfire, say researchers at the European Geosciences Union meeting.