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No signal from targeted ET hunt

Astronomers use a high-resolution radio technique for the first time to hunt for signals from potentially habitable planets - but turn up nothing.

1 day ago

Sheep free of Chernobyl controls

The last farms under sheep movement controls after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster finally have them lifted after 26 years.

1 day ago

Green EU farm rules criticised

EU plans for new farm-subsidy rules will reduce European food production and are likely to harm the environment, a Commons committee warns.

2 days ago

US court battle over lethal drugs

A US government agency goes to court to secure supplies of a drug used in lethal injections, which have dwindled since an importation ban.

2 days ago

UK butterflies continue decline

The population of UK butterflies is continuing its downward trend, according to a nationwide survey of the countryside.

2 days ago

Hubble times local galaxy pile-up

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope say our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into its neighbour, Andromeda, in about four billion years.

2 days ago

Splashdown for Dragon spacecraft

The American SpaceX company completes a historic first mission to the International Space Station by a privately operated vehicle.

2 days ago

Paralysed rats learn to walk

Paralysed rats have been able to walk again when their spinal cords were bathed in chemicals and zapped with electricity, scientists have shown.

2 days ago

Egrets breed in UK for first time

Great white egrets are breeding in the UK for first time at a Somerset nature reserve, after confirmation of at least one chick hatching.

2 days ago

Chemist is new MoD science chief

A professor of chemistry at Imperial College London has been formally appointed as the new chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

2 days ago

The craze for lucid dreaming

The growing hobby of trying to control dreams

3 days ago

Blow to Patagonian dam project

One of the two companies planning to build the giant HidroAysen dam in Patagonia has frozen the project, citing lack of government backing.

3 days ago

Supervolcanoes quicker to blow

The planets biggest volcanoes do not need nearly as long to develop before eruption as previously thought, US research suggests.

3 days ago

VIDEO: Dark matter hunt in US gold mine

Searching for secrets of universe in a US gold mine

3 days ago

Genome promises tastier tomatoes

Scientists have sequenced the tomato genome and say it will yield tastier fruit as a result.

3 days ago

Male contact makes woman glow

The merest interaction with a member of the opposite sex can bring a glow to a womans face, a new study finds.

3 days ago

Ministers in U-turn over buzzards

Plans to allow some gamekeepers in England to capture buzzards and destroy their nests to stop them eating pheasants are abandoned.

3 days ago

Cricket swing not from humidity

Research on cricket balls as they are subjected to varying humidity suggests that it does not affect the phenomenon of "swing bowling".

4 days ago

Distrust could hamper Green Deal

Public mistrust of the Big Six energy firms may undermine government plans for its planned Green Deal, according to the International Energy Agency.

4 days ago

Lung washing may up transplants

Washing lungs before they are transplanted could increase the number of organs suitable for donation, according to doctors in Newcastle.

4 days ago

Buffer zone call for wind farms

Wind farms should be further from homes to protect people from noise in some circumstances, a group of AMs says.

4 days ago

Yellow submarine in alien hunt

A yellow submarine is on a mission beneath the surface of Lough Erne in County Fermanagh in search of an alien species, zebra mussels.

4 days ago

City to host laser research hub

Fraunhofer, Europes largest contract research organisation, is to set up its British HQ and create a research hub in Glasgow.

4 days ago

Reptile has steak-knife teeth

The unique saw-like chew of a New Zealand reptile could be the secret of its success, say scientists.

4 days ago

Telescope instrument flies to US

The first instrument to be built for the successor to the Hubble space telescope heads out of London for Washington.

4 days ago

Sixteen dead in new Italy quake

A new earthquake hits the Emilia Romagna region in northern Italy, killing at least 16 people and injuring about 200, officials say.

4 days ago

Tudor era is historical myth

The idea of a distinctive "Tudor era" in English history is a misleading invention, an Oxford University historian argues.

5 days ago

Falling stout bubbles explained

Mathematicians suggest that the reason bubbles in stout beers such as Guinness sink is simply down to shape of a standard pint glass.

5 days ago

Self-drive convoy hits the road

A three-car self-drive convoy is tested on a public road in Spain for the first time, raising hopes of a new era of relaxed driving.

5 days ago

Anger over agencys shale report

The International Energy Agency has infuriated environmentalists with a report on what it calls the "golden age" of gas.

5 days ago

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