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    Geothermal Activity and Earthquakes

    Could a geothermal project have caused an earthquake in South Korea?

  2. Smelly Socks in Malaria Fight

    Kenyan childrens鈥� socks give clues to mosquito biting

  3. New Planet Hunting Mission

    NASA's new planet hunting mission is about to launch

  4. Tracing the Novichok Trail

    How scientists are tracing the novichok trail in the UK using 鈥渉otzone鈥� forensics

  5. The Rise of Novichok Agents

    A history of chemical weapons and the rise of novichok agents

  6. Can Science Save the Northern White Rhino?

    IVF and stem cell treatments could help save the northern white rhino. Only two remain.

  7. Physicist Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018)

    Celebrating Cosmologist Stephen Hawking鈥檚 work

  8. Russia鈥檚 New Nuclear Age

    How credible is Putin鈥檚 claim that Russia has developed a nuclear-powered cruise missile?

  9. Cold Winter, Warm Climate

    A warming Arctic is causing extremely cold winters in North America and Western Europe

  10. Will Cape Town Run Out of Water?

    Cape Town is warning that taps will be turned off in July if rains don鈥檛 come soon

  11. Reversing Systemic Bias Against Women Scientists in the Media

    Addressing the bias against women quoted in popular science articles

  12. The Secrets of Hummingbird Flight Revealed

    Slow motion videos of hundreds of hummingbirds reveal their remarkable manoeuvrability

  13. The Birth of Space Science

    60 years ago, the pioneering US Explorer 1 satellite launched the age of space science

  14. The Earliest Modern Humans Outside Africa

    The earliest Early Modern Human (Homo sapiens) fossil found outside Africa

  15. African Swine Fever

    The viral African swine fever is spreading through Europe, threatening pork production

  16. Oil Spill in East China Sea

    The potential environmental disaster of the oil tanker accident in the East China Sea

  17. The Galaxy's Most Peculiar Flickering Star

    Oddly flickering Tabby鈥檚 star not caused by alien technology, but more likely to be dust

  18. The Best Science of 2017

    Roland looks back through some of the best science stories of 2017

  19. Early Warning for Landslides

    Plans to develop an early warning system for landslides in the Western Ghats in India

  20. California Forest Fires

    What are the conditions causing the catastrophic wildfires in Southern California?

  21. Nuclear Fallout in the Pacific

    Radioactivity lingers in the Marshall Islands 65 years after the US tested nuclear bombs

  22. Semi-synthetic Life

    Scientists add man-made molecules to DNA of bacteria, creating a semi-synthetic organism

  23. Interstellar Asteroid

    The first asteroid from outside the Solar System has been detected

  24. Predictable Patterns in Earthquake Activity

    A new hypothesis has linked earthquake occurrence to cycles in Earth鈥檚 rotation

  25. Science on Trial

    What is the danger to scientific discourse when scientists sue other scientists?

  26. Hidden Secrets of the Great Pyramid

    Particle physics has helped reveal a tantalising void in the Great Pyramid in Giza

  27. Catastrophic Decline in Flying Insects

    Research in Germany suggests flying insects have declined by 75% over the past 30 years

  28. Detecting a 鈥楤ling Nova鈥�

    Gravity waves, gamma rays and light detected from two neutron stars merging 130 mya

  29. Watching the Earth 鈥楤reathe鈥�

    NASA鈥檚 Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) measures how carbon moves around the Earth

  30. Nobel Prizes for Science 2017

    The excitement, reaction and explanation of the 2017 Nobel Science Prizes

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