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  1. Global Warming Pause - Is It Valid?

    Global surface temperature data disputes the reported global warming slowdown or pause.

  2. Ageing Secrets of the Fat-Tailed Dwarf Lemur

    Broken robots which can soldier on. Positive stories of HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

  3. El Nino

    El Nino is a weather event that happens every five years yet it is hard to predict

  4. Gene Seasonality

    Gene expression changes with the seasons

  5. The Destructive Power of the Nepalese Earthquake

    Seismologists report on the unusual shaking during the Nepalese earthquake

  6. Nepal earthquake

    Nepal earthquake devastation

  7. Artemisinin Resistant Malaria in Africa

    Malaria resistant to artemisinin drug found in Kenya

  8. 25 years of the Hubble Space Telescope

    25 years since the launch of the Hubble Space telescope, we celebrate its successes.

  9. Inbred Gorillas

    Claudia Hammond investigates concussion in sport and asks, will science stop play?

  10. Large Hadron Collider

    A date has been set for the reboot of the Large Hadron Collider

  11. Ebola One Year On

    A warning that all countries need to be clear of Ebola before the danger is over.

  12. Farming African Wet Savannah

    70% more food production will be required to feed the growing global population.

  13. Anthropocene Start Date

    When did humans become a geological force? Europe’s invasion of the Americas in 1500s?

  14. Solar Impulse 2’s global flight

    The sunlight-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, is about to fly around the world.

  15. Curbing mobile phone waste

    The CLEVER project that aims to curb mobile phone waste

  16. Planned obsolescence

    New research examines the ability to implant completely made-up false memories in people

  17. Plastics in the Oceans

    How much plastic waste is entering the worlds' oceans?

  18. Cosmic Renaissance

    Scientists say the first stars lit up the Universe later than was previously thought

  19. Perovskite solar panels

    New developments in materials mean that cheaper photovoltaic cells may be on the horizon

  20. Rosetta Latest

    What have we learned so far from data sent back from the instruments on-board Rosetta?

  21. Lost Beagle2 probe found 'intact' on Mars

    Solution to the mystery of the missing Mars robot Beagle2

  22. New Planets

    The most recent Earth-like exoplanet spotted by Kepler

  23. Trauma medicine

    In a special programme, Dr Kevin Fong explores the evolution of trauma medicine.

  24. The Ebola Story

    Claudia Hammond looks back at the Ebola epidemic to see why it spiralled out of control.

  25. Microplastics in our Oceans

    Scientists find microplastics in deep sea sediments are higher than sea-surface waters

  26. Results from Rosetta

    Rosetta’s ROSINA instrument measures what water in Comet 67P’s atmosphere looks like

  27. Orion Test Launch Successful

    Nasa’s new Orion crew capsule took to the sky and completed its maiden, unmanned voyage

  28. Experimental Vaccine to Protect Against Ebola

    The first results of a human trial of an experimental vaccine to protect against Ebola

  29. Philae lander detects organic molecules on Comet 67P

    Monica Grady from the Open University discusses the latest news from the comet mission.

  30. Rosetta Comet Mission

    History was made this week as Rosetta’s probe, Philae, landed on comet 67P.

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