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    Rosetta Landing Preparations

    Rosetta's probe Philae gets ready for the first ever comet-landing

  2. Driverless Cars Special

    Car crashes kill 1.2 million people each year. Could robots be better than human drivers?

  3. Powerful Microscopy

    Nobel Laureate-led team develop microscopy methods to film cell activity.

  4. Sun Research

    What the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) satellite can tell us about the sun

  5. Nobel Prizes 2014

    The 2014 Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry are announced

  6. HIV in Africa

    The origin of the HIV pandemic has been traced to the 1920s in the city of Kinshasa

  7. Indian Mars Mission

    India is the first Asian country to successfully place a satellite into Mars' orbit

  8. NASA Human Space Flight

    US Space Agency is back in the astronaut transport business

  9. Europa's Tectonic Plates

    Tectonic plates made of ice are found on Jupiter鈥檚 moon Europa

  10. 'Dreadnought' Dino

    Super massive dinosaur species discovered in southern Argentina

  11. Ebola Virus Sequenced

    Genetic sequencing of Ebola virus holds clues to origins of latest outbreak

  12. Icelandic Volcano

    Intense seismic activity leads to increased risk of B谩r冒arbunga volcano erupting

  13. Chile Earthquake Explained

    New evidence suggests that the potential for large earthquakes in Chile remains high

  14. Rosetta Rendezvous

    The Rosetta probe has arrived at comet 67P and is sending back new data

  15. Geysers on Enceladus

    Gigantic geysers erupting in Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, could be a sign of life

  16. GM Crops in Africa

    Apathy amongst African politicians about GM technology is costing the economy.

  17. ISEE-3 Reboot Project

    Crowdfunded space hackers have managed to restart an old comet-chasing NASA satellite

  18. Cosmic Dust

    Explosion of stars produces cosmic dust that is thought to eventually form planets

  19. Earthquakes in Oklahoma

    Waste water pumping following oil extraction causes earthquakes in Oklahoma

  20. Ancient Namibian Reef

    The discovery of an ancient Namibian reef suggests animals evolved sooner than thought

  21. Looking for ET

    Using methane models to detect life on other planets

  22. Indian Ocean Extreme Weather

    Flooding and droughts will become more common in countries surrounding the Indian Ocean

  23. Brazil Leads CO2 Emissions Reduction

    Brazil is the global leader in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, states new research

  24. Searching the Ocean

    Looking for the MH370 plane on the sea bed is revealing how little we know of the abyss

  25. Californian Quakes

    Research reveals an alternative to San Francisco's 'next big one'

  26. The First Americans

    The 13,000 year old remains of a teenager may teach scientists about the first Americans

  27. Colin Pillinger Dies

    British planetary scientist Colin Pillinger has died following a brain haemorrhage

  28. Birds in Chernobyl

    Birds adapting to radiation in Chernobyl

  29. Tsetse Fly Genome

    Scientists decode the genome of the fly that spreads sleeping sickness

  30. Egg and Sperm Unlocking Mechanism

    Protein receptor discovered that enables egg to be 'unlocked' by sperm to fertilise

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