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Brecon Beacons National Park has become Wales' first and only the fifth destination in the world to be granted the status of an international dark sky reserve.
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With researchers set to use the Hubble Space telescope to study a force called dark energy, Pallab Ghosh explains why modern physics is set for its next big revolution in thinking.
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Injured military personnel who have legs amputated are to be given the most up-to-date prosthetic limbs after the government set aside £6.5m.
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How much bigger can container ships grow?
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Scientists are working to reduce the noise levels and hazardous collisions that blight whale populations swimming off the northeast coast of the US.
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Two Russian cities 1,000 kilometres apart are disputing the unofficial title of the coldest inhabited place on earth.
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Russian scientists say they have found fragments of a meteorite that struck in the Urals region on Friday, injuring some 1,200 people.
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The birth of a rare giant armadillo has been recorded for the first time in Brazil.
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Scientists at a nature reserve in Somerset are baffled by a jelly-like slime which has appeared in a number of locations at the site.
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Dozens of rescued birds washed up on the south coast covered in an oil additive are set to be released.
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A large pod of dolphins proved to be an unexpected spectacle for tourists taking a boat trip near San Diego, California.
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Alvin, the famous US manned deep-submersible, is nearing the end of a major $41m refit and will soon resume underwater research duties.
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The scientist leading the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, one of the most expensive experiments ever put into space, says the project is ready to come forward with its first results.
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Alvin, the world's most experienced manned deep submersible, is nearing the end of a major $41m refit and will shortly resume its research duties.
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Seals are able to judge the size of an object using their whiskers, research shows.
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The UK's national synchrotron facility - the Diamond Light Source near Oxford - is to become a world centre for studying the structure of viruses and bacteria that cause serious disease.
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A £1,000 reward is offered after two buzzards are shot dead and thrown in a ditch near an East Yorkshire village.
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A machine that runs an artificial finger across different types of surface is being used to investigate the evolutionary origins of the pattern of ridges on the ends of our digits.
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Scientists will soon release the first batch of data from a project designed to create the first map showing the detailed connections in the human brain.
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Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to deliver its first drill sample to the onboard laboratories in the coming days, says mission project scientist John Grotzinger.
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Sainsbury's boss Justin King says firms go to great lengths to ensure "our food is what we expect it to be"
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How can radiologists miss dancing gorillas?
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US Army researches new techniques for repairing wounds
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Scientists working on Nasa's Messenger probe to Mercury show off a stunning new colour map of the innermost world of the solar system.
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A 20,000-strong team is sent to the Ural region as part of a rescue and clean-up operation after Friday's spectacular meteor strike, which injured more than 1,000 people.
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