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    Evidence of the Earliest Life on Earth

    Microfossils that are 3.77 to 4.28 billion years old have been found in rocks in Canada

  2. 7 Exoplanetary System Found

    A system of 7 Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star have been discovered.

  3. Reduction in Arctic Ice

    The sea ice in the Arctic should be increasing right now, but it's not - we ask why?

  4. Clueless about Martian Atmosphere

    NASA鈥檚 Curiosity Rover still can鈥檛 unravel the mystery of water on early Mars

  5. How Bird鈥檚 Beaks Evolved

    Birds display an incredible diversity of beak shapes and sizes, but how did they evolve?

  6. Making Metallic Hydrogen

    It鈥檚 taken 80 years, but metallic hydrogen has finally been made in the lab

  7. Ice Crack Will Shut Down Antarctic Base

    Ice-sheet crack in Antarctica might threaten the safety of the Halley VI Ice Station

  8. Huge Area of Peatland Found in Congo

    A massive, environmentally important peatland has been discovered in northern Congo

  9. Fast Radio Bursts

    Pinpointing elusive radio waves from the edge of the Universe

  10. State of the Climate 2016

    Science in Action concludes the year with a review of the highs and lows of climate 2016.

  11. Creatures of the Very Deep

    Octopuses that live 4 kilometres beneath the sea surface have just been discovered.

  12. Europe鈥檚 Coldest Decade

    Europe's coldest decade 1430-1440, which caused famine and hardship across the continent.

  13. Do Martian Rocks Contain Signs of Life?

    Are fossilised rock structures on Mars made by microbes?

  14. More Evidence that Lucy Climbed Trees

    The bones of hominin Lucy, show she may have walked upright, but she still climbed trees

  15. How Dung Beetles are a Cattle Farmers Best Friend

    A sticking plaster that can record, analyse and monitor dysfunctional heartbeats

  16. Exciting Geology of Chicxulub Crater

    The immense geological upheaval created by the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs

  17. Record-breaking Air Pollution in Delhi

    Understanding the huge spike in levels of particulate matter in the air over Delhi

  18. Italian Earthquakes Are Part of a Sequence

    How the recent Italian earthquakes are linked and what this says about what happens next

  19. Halloween Science

    Science with a spooky edge 鈥� bacteria in blood, spiders' silk, and venom stealing virus

  20. Has the Latest Mars Lander Failed?

    The ESA lost contact with its Schiaparelli Mars lander 鈥� has it crashed?

  21. The Earliest Birds Probably 鈥楺uacked鈥�

    Finding the oldest fossilized syrinx, a bird鈥檚 equivalent of a voice box.

  22. Nobel Prizes for Science 2016

    Nobel Prizes for mini machines, cellular dustbins and strange materials

  23. Rosetta鈥檚 Mission Ends

    ESA鈥檚 Rosetta mission to study a comet hopes to gather scientific data right up to the end

  24. The Antikythera Mechanism and the Ship Wreck

    More archaeological evidence collected from the 2000 year old Antikythera shipwreck.

  25. Making Babies Without Eggs?

    Scientist make healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into fertilising 鈥渇ake鈥� egg.

  26. Emotional Breath in the Cinema

    In the cinema, we broadcast our emotions into the air in the form of chemical signals.

  27. The Oldest Life on Earth

    Life on Earth might have started even earlier than we thought, 3.7 billion years ago

  28. Nearest Star has Earth-Sized Planet

    An Earth-sized exoplanet has been discovered to be orbiting our nearest star, Proxima

  29. Tracking Poverty

    Identifying Africa鈥檚 poor regions using satellites reveal places where help is needed most

  30. Nerve Recovery in Brain Machine Interface Patients

    Paraplegic patients using robotic legs and training on a BMI showed some nerve recovery

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