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The subtle warping of the land surface across Britain is fully mapped in detail for the first time.

A project to sequence DNA from ancient remains may solve a puzzle involving people from south-east Britain.

Ancient DNA from human remains has helped construct a new narrative for human history.

Satellites make the most detailed observations yet of the magnetism generated by moving seawater.

When the Barcelona striker nets another wonder goal, the city literally shakes.

Autonomous sea-gliders fitted with hydrophones gather information far from weather stations.

Sea reptiles the size of blue whales swam off the English coast 200 million years ago, fossils show.

Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count, while the rest are microscopic colonists.

A scientific cruise next year will look for Ernest Shackleton's famous lost ship given the opportunity.

An international expedition next year will try to reach the site of a major new iceberg.

Cambridge University researchers find human cancer drugs could halt the extinction of the marsupial.

A fossil find from Saudi Arabia adds to growing evidence that modern humans left Africa earlier than supposed.

Serbian social media users mock city's tribute to the first man in space.

From chlorine to novichok, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon takes us through the history of chemical weapons.

The media watchdog says the ex-chancellor was "not sufficiently challenged" during a radio interview.

The annual extra now compared with the early 1800s has a water volume twice that of the Dead Sea.

A new mission aboard the International Space Station is taking storm chasing to new heights.

The supersonic test flight of its SpaceShipTwo rocket ship was the first since a crash in 2014.

It's not just spiders, scorpions and snakes for the man in charge of pest control at Kandahar air base.

A study of litter in UK seas shows the number of plastic bags has fallen, amid a rise in other types of plastic rubbish.