BBC

Subscribe to BBC feed BBC
BBC News - Science & Environment
Updated: 2 hours 44 min ago

Tim Peake will be wobbly after landing - Helen Sharman

Wed, 2016-06-15 04:07
Tim Peake is likely to feel unsteady after landing says fellow British astronaut Helen Sharman.
Categories: Around The Web

Tim Peake: The UK astronaut's best photos and comments

Wed, 2016-06-15 04:06
Has Tim Peake got the best photo album on (and off) Earth? As his space mission comes to an end, we compile some of his best shots along with his comments.
Categories: Around The Web

Tim Peake: Watch key moments from UK astronaut's mission

Wed, 2016-06-15 04:06
As UK astronaut Tim Peake comes back to Earth, BBC News has compiled some of the best Esa videos from his six-month mission.
Categories: Around The Web

Tim Peake: A look at Sokol spacesuit used for re-entry

Wed, 2016-06-15 04:05
As British astronaut Tim Peake ends his mission, BBC News takes a look at the spacesuit used for launch and re-entry.
Categories: Around The Web

The moth that could devastate UK crops

Wed, 2016-06-15 02:03
UK crops could potentially be "devastated" by an infestation of a species of moth arriving from continental Europe, scientists say.
Categories: Around The Web

Operation Puerto: Blood bags in Spanish cycling doping case to be handed over

Wed, 2016-06-15 01:48
Blood bags used as evidence in a major Spanish cycling doping scandal must be handed over to authorities for investigation, a court rules.
Categories: Around The Web

Unique meteorite from asteroid smash-up

Wed, 2016-06-15 01:46
Scientists identify a completely new type of meteorite that likely originated in a huge asteroid collision some 470 million years ago.
Categories: Around The Web

'Biblical' moth influx threatens to devastate crops

Tue, 2016-06-14 22:00
Scientists have learned that cabbage and cauliflower crops could potentially be "devastated" by an infestation of moths from continental Europe.
Categories: Around The Web

Up close with the Titanic's sunken sister

Tue, 2016-06-14 16:55
The BBC dives more than 100 metres underwater in a submarine to see the wreck of the Britannic in the Aegean, where it sank in 1916.
Categories: Around The Web

Baboons return to Tbilisi zoo

Tue, 2016-06-14 09:29
The zoo in Georgia's capital Tbilisi has been slowly re-populating with animals, after flooding last year killed nearly half of its former residents.
Categories: Around The Web

El Niño likely to boost CO2 in 2016

Tue, 2016-06-14 01:34
A big spike in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels means the greenhouse gas is about to pass a symbolic threshold.
Categories: Around The Web

Spread of human disease from animals mapped

Mon, 2016-06-13 21:19
Scientists say they have developed a better way to predict how diseases such as Lassa fever jump from animals to humans.
Categories: Around The Web

Would Brexit compromise the future of UK science?

Mon, 2016-06-13 20:58
Leading scientists have been particularly vocal in arguing against the UK leaving the European Union. But how would Brexit really affect UK science, asks Tom Feilden.
Categories: Around The Web

Solar Impulse flies over night-time New York

Sat, 2016-06-11 18:05
A plane powered only by the sun travels to New York City for a photoshoot at the Statue of Liberty, ahead of crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Categories: Around The Web

Nobel prize winners warn leaving EU poses 'risk' to science

Sat, 2016-06-11 12:01
A group of 13 Nobel prize-winning scientists warn leaving the EU poses a "key risk" to British science.
Categories: Around The Web

Extraterrestrial honour for UK astronaut Tim Peake

Sat, 2016-06-11 07:30
Astronaut Tim Peake is recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Categories: Around The Web

Light pollution 'affects 80% of global population'

Sat, 2016-06-11 04:08
More than 80% of the world's population lives under light-polluted skies, a study suggests.
Categories: Around The Web

Petra, Jordan: Huge monument found 'hiding in plain sight'

Fri, 2016-06-10 19:47
Archaeologists using satellite imagery discover a huge, ceremonial monument at the Petra World Heritage site in southern Jordan.
Categories: Around The Web

Hummingbird moths colonise UK

Fri, 2016-06-10 17:45
A hummingbird-like moth may have colonised the UK, according to conservationists.
Categories: Around The Web

China's giant glass bridge hit with sledgehammer

Fri, 2016-06-10 09:00
BBC Click smashes one of the panels on the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge to see how safe it is.
Categories: Around The Web

Pages