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

Has the Latest Mars Lander Failed?
The ESA lost contact with its Schiaparelli Mars lander – has it crashed?

The Earliest Birds Probably ‘Quacked’
Finding the oldest fossilized syrinx, a bird’s equivalent of a voice box.

Nobel Prizes for Science 2016
Nobel Prizes for mini machines, cellular dustbins and strange materials

Rosetta’s Mission Ends
ESA’s Rosetta mission to study a comet hopes to gather scientific data right up to the end

The Antikythera Mechanism and the Ship Wreck
More archaeological evidence collected from the 2000 year old Antikythera shipwreck.

Making Babies Without Eggs?
Scientist make healthy baby mice by tricking sperm into fertilising “fake” egg.

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

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

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