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Just why pears are prone to rot faster than apples after they are picked can now be explained by scientists.
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The poor breeding of Scotland’s seabirds is causing “serious concern”, according to RSPB Scotland.
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Russian cosmonauts complete a spacewalk to remove an explosive bolt from a Soyuz capsule attached to the International Space Station.
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A third of the world’s reef-building coral species are facing extinction, the first global assessment shows.
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A new solar technology could increase the power generated by solar panels tenfold, a team of scientists show.
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Twenty Russian scientists are to be taken off their ice camp in the Arctic because the melt has set in sooner than expected.
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Humans are using too much and nature is suffering
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Marine biologists plan to tie mini computers to jellyfish to track them off the coasts of north and west Wales.
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Space officials set a date of 2018 for launching an unmanned mission to return samples of Martian soil to Earth.
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As it takes over the EU’s rotating presidency, France says it wants to give European space policy a new political direction.
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One in four secondary schools in England does not have any specialist physics teachers, says a survey.
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The procurement process is opened to construct Europe’s much-delayed Galileo satellite-navigation system.
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Two loggerhead turtles are flown to Gran Canaria and returned to the wild after washing up on UK shores.
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Campaigners from many of the 15 sites in England earmarked for “eco-towns” are protesting outside Parliament.
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Thousands of wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of a

Climate change has resulted in many plant species moving an average of 29 metres uphill every decade, a study finds.
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The problem of keeping track of thousands of near-identical penguins has been solved, scientists report.
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Bumblebees may be showing an increasingly common behaviour of feeding on secretions from aphids.
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Martian soil appears to contain sufficient nutrients to support life - or, at least, asparagus - Nasa scientists believe.
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Scientists identify a 365-million-year-old fossil that helps explain the sequence of events that took early creatures onto land.
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A pioneering research organisation that has produced 13 Nobel Prize winners gets the go-ahead for a new

Centuries of knowledge needed to survive in the world’s drylands are being sacrificed in the name of progress.
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A pioneering research organisation that has produced 13 Nobel Prize winners gets the go-ahead for a new

A certificate scheme that shows which firms have made genuine carbon cuts is launched by the UK’s Carbon Trust.
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Sunbathing tree frogs may hold the key to understanding how a deadly fungus is wiping out amphibians around the world.
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Nasa’s Phoenix spacecraft unearths evidence of ice in the soil around its landing site on Mars.
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Tools thought to have belonged to Neanderthals have been dug up at an archaeological site called Beedings in West Sussex.
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The “Jules Verne” freighter lifts the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by a record distance.
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Our planet will not be sucked into a black hole made in a new European physics facility, a report concludes.
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Despite recent criticisms, the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism is delivering the goods.
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The Jason-2 satellite is launched on a mission to measure the shape of the world’s oceans and track sea level rise.
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A rare meteorite that could hold clues to the Solar System’s birth has been bought by the Natural History Museum.
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British homeowners may face higher bills as part of a “green revolution” to reduce fossil fuel reliance.
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Mark Lynas’ book on global warming wins this year’s Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
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Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland’s “subsistence” whalehunt is too commercially motivated.
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Some of the first farmers probably used green beads to protect themselves and their crops, a study suggests.
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A cannon and other key artefacts are raised from an Elizabethan ship wreck off the coast of the Channel Islands.
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The US space shuttle Discovery lands in Florida despite the earlier loss of a rudder clip.
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Conservative leader David Cameron insists he will not be diverted from his environmental agenda by the economic downturn.
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UK scientist Dr Tom Pike describes the moment the Phoenix lander obtained its first scoop of Martian soil for analysis.
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