- BBC Science/Nature
- 09/4/8 04:42
The BBC's Alex Bushill talks to volunteers helping to clean up a beach in Devon.
The BBC's Alex Bushill talks to volunteers helping to clean up a beach in Devon.
Recent wet summers have hit the UK butterfly population hard, say conservationists.
Chimpanzees enter into long-term deals, exchanging meat for sex, say researchers who studied behaviour in Ivory Coast.
TUESDAY 7. APRIL 2009
Banks are bailed out, but ecological debt rises
A French surgeon says he has now effectively carried out a full face transplant after two operations in a fortnight.
Arctic winter sea-ice reaches a larger maximum area than in 2008 but is still in long-term decline, say scientists.
A micrometeorite with a "unique" chemical composition is broadening ideas of how planets can form.
It takes less than 30 seconds for the reigning World Memory Champion to recall the sequence of a pack of playing cards. In an hour, he can memorise 26 more packs. But can the secrets of grand memory masters help the rest of us find our car keys?
RSC Energia is selected to lead the development of a next-generation Russian manned spacecraft.
The think-tank IPPR warns the UK Chancellor not to use green taxes to plug the hole in government finances.
The Cutty Sark is being restored using computer models which may also answer questions about her original speed.
Ejector seats a possibility for hi-tech ambulances
Hyperactivity in a part of the brain that deals with memory may give an early warning of dementia decades later, UK research suggests.
Europe's Goce satellite switches on the super-sensitive instrument that will make ultra-fine measurements of Earth's gravity.
MONDAY 6. APRIL 2009
Battle over Amazon oil exploration heats up
A scientist's claim to have forecast an earthquake that killed dozens of people in central Italy is challenged by authorities and experts.
The BBC wins two Sir Arthur Clarke awards for its coverage of space.
Italy has to live with its quake threat
Doctors may soon be able to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body with a simple shot in the arm.
Battle lines drawn over who stores our data
DNA testing shows Welsh pine martens have genetic differences to those in other parts of the UK and Ireland, experts find.
Columnist Bill Thompson on the pervasive net
Conservationists criticise the government for failing to provide the resources to protect dwindling species.
Security cameras in Northern Ireland may shed some light on the cause of a massive fireball in the sky on Sunday.
A scientific study has discovered why scratching helps relieve the irritation of an itch.