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It is horsefly season, which means all those enjoying the countryside should watch out for bites.

Wade Kelly's drone captured dozens of the reptiles on camera this week, sunbathing by the Daly River in Australia.

Improvements to the world's biggest particle smasher are designed to uncover new physics.

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch is among those giving readings at the ceremony.

Author and activist Will McCallum gives us his top tips for eliminating plastics from our everyday lives.

The Kilauea volcano has been pouring lava into the ocean off Hawaii, causing a hydrochloric acid mist.

Experts say the findings could be life-changing for millions of patients.

Frogs trapped in amber for 99 million years give clues to lost world. The four fossils were found in Myanmar.

The words of the renowned physicist have been set to music by composer Vangelis.

Xenophobic comments are found in private journals from the physicist's 1920s tour of Asia.

Nasa says it is concerned after the ageing solar-powered Opportunity rover lost all power.

With Antarctica shedding ice at an accelerating rate, here's what you need to know about continent's ice sheet.

Scientists hope to save the saiga, a Central Asian antelope which survived the Ice Age, but is now in peril.

Satellites observing the White Continent detect a jump in the rate of ice being lost to the ocean.

Delegations to the European Space Agency vote to procure another batch of spacecraft, despite British calls to delay.

The internet has been transfixed as it scaled a 23-floor Minnesota building for nearly a day.

The red squirrel, the wildcat, and the grey long-eared bat face severe threats, a study says.

With the first 500mph runs now pushed back to mid-2019, there is more time to prepare the world's first supersonic car.

The US has more captive tigers than the rest of the world has wild ones. Why?

Many of the oldest and largest specimens of Africa's baobab tree have died over the past 12 years.