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Pheasants are the bird species most likely to be run over on UK roads, according to new research.

They may not be household names, but, according to experts, they pose risks to the environment.

The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists for the detection of gravitational waves.

The fossil of a marine reptile from 199 million years ago gives clues to the diet of baby reptiles.

Only one of four groups of Beavers in Argyll is showing signs of successful breeding.

Michael Gove wants views on whether a "reward and return" system would improve recycling in England.

Understanding how our bodies keep time has "vast implications" for health, say Nobel committee.

The UK's hardiest snow patch melts for what is thought to be only the seventh time in 300 years.

Suzie Imber, who beat 11 people to the prize, is "excited" she could "one day end up in space".

More than 100,000 people have fled their homes as they wait for Bali's Mount Agung to erupt.

The British-led project to build a 1,000mph car reaches a key milestone in its development.

New Zealand's forest used to be home to millions of kiwi. Now there are only 68,000 left.

The entrepreneur says his new rocket could fly people to Mars or move them rapidly between cities.

Creator of ChemStart, Bathabile Mpofu, takes hands-on scientific experiments into schools in South Africa.

Hundreds of Japanese species have been found on US coasts, swept there by the deadly 2011 tsunami.

The process begins of scoping new spacecraft for the Sentinel Earth observation network.

A team in Bangalore has entered the Google Lunar X Prize to land a rover on the Moon.

Sir Paul Nurse says this kind of technique could be done in the UK.

A major citizen science project will spread virtual flu with the aim of understanding how to stop the real thing.

Four times larger than regular rodents, a large, tree-dwelling rat has been found in the Pacific.