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India defers first GM food crop - India defers the cultivation of what would have been its first genetically modified vegetable crop because of safety concerns.
Season shifts 'alter food chains' - The earlier arrival of spring in the UK appears to be throwing food chains out of synchronisation, a study suggests.
Enceladus water story reinforced - The Cassini probe returns yet more data to back up the idea of a sub-surface sea on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Atom-smasher yields first result - The spray of subatomic particles from the Large Hadron Collider's record-smashing December experiments has been analysed.
Shuttle makes final night flight - The US space agency (Nasa) has launched its shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
First film of giant deep-sea fish - Scientists film the giant serpent-like oarfish in its natural deep-sea habitat for the first time, as well as the rare manefish.
Genes reveal 'biological ageing' - Scientists say they have pinpointed gene variants that might show how fast people's bodies are ageing.
Dynamic Pluto revealed in images - Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the icy dwarf planet Pluto undergoes dramatic seasonal changes.
A warmer world 'will be more fragrant', researchers say - Climate change will make the world more fragrant, as warming temperatures make plants release more chemicals, according to a major scientific review.
How a quantum physics trick may make smartphones even smarter - A quantum physics trick is set to give smartphones and hand-held devices pressure-sensitive switches and touchscreens.
Richard Black on what's happening to our shared environment -
Thinking small - How communities can lead the way on climate change
Green pounds - Eco-towns earmarked for government cash
Robo-soldiers - Can 'well-behaved' robots make the battlefield safer?
Spaceman - America ponders the options for a big rocket
In pictures - The troubles faced by the world's largest amphibian
Sea drifters - Colourful images of plankton in the world's oceans
Copenhagen - the Munich of our times? - The Copenhagen Climate Accord was a "failure of historic proportions" and hardly worth the paper it's printed on.
We cannot buy Earth more time - Global economic growth, in its current form, cannot continue if nations are serious about curbing climate change.
Extraordinary owl preys on sloth - The first evidence of a sloth that has been killed by a owl.
Dinosaur had colourful feathers - A 150 million year old dinosaur fossil had multi-coloured feathers
Dinosaur footprint haul in China - Scientists in China say they have discovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, all facing in the same direction.
Insects migrate in wind highways - Migrating insects use highways in the sky to speed their journey, according to a study published in Science magazine.
Ancient Indian language dies out - peaker of the Bo language in India's Andaman Islands dies at the age of about 85, a leading linguist says.
Scan unlocks vegetative patients - Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts.
Exoplanet gas spotted from Earth - Astronomers have used a new ground-based technique to study the atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System.
Birds use feathers 'to touch' - Birds may use their feathers for touch - to feel their surroundings just as cats use their whiskers, scientists find.
Climate scepticism 'on the rise' - The British public has become increasingly sceptical about climate change, a poll for BBC News suggests.
Russia 'dumped waste in Baltic' - The Russian military dumped nuclear waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, Swedish media reports say.
Embattled climate chief supported - India gives its full support to embattled climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri, under attack over recent scientific errors.
How spider webs capture water - e water droplets from the air.