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The US space agency's next rover will hunt for life's traces among the rocks of the Red Planet.

The deadliness of the virus advances progressively with the age of the patient, research suggests.

The UK's first industrial contribution to the orbiting platform will improve its communication links.

Andrew Sabisky said that he wanted to help the government, "not be a distraction".

The Amazon boss and world's richest man gives 8% of his fortune to fight the planet's "biggest threat".

Labour calls for Andrew Sabisky to be sacked over reported comments on race and eugenics.

Scientists at the Open University are studying minerals collected during the 1969 Moon landings.

Bayer and BASF are told to pay huge damages to a Missouri peach-grower.

A new supercomputer is to be built by 2022 to improve the accuracy of weather forecasting.

A US firm claims the service it offers saves more than a tonne of carbon, after a pilot study.

The future scientific relationship is the European Research Council's biggest challenge, new head says.

Astronomers want more public funds to help search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

US researchers call for more regulation around the sale of sex robots with artificial intelligence.

Smoke from wildfires may have long-term health effects, according to US research on juvenile monkeys.

Mysterious archaic hominins may have interbred with early humans in West Africa, scientists say.

Communities on the coast face "serious questions" against the background of climate change.

As sea levels rise, difficult decisions are being made about which communities to save.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic rocket plane transfers to New Mexico for final testing.

The government wants to collect 35,000kg of waste - along with bodies - from six Himalayan peaks.

The temperature was recorded on an island off the Antarctic continent's northern tip.