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Outdoor learning can have a positive impact on children's development but it needs to be formally adopted by national curricula, a report suggests.

British astronaut Tim Peake says that he is concerned about the future of scientific research in Britain, following the vote to leave the European Union.

The government has axed the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) in a major departmental shake-up.

The European Space Agency has signed a contract to build a prototype drill and chemistry lab that will be flown on a Russian mission to the Moon in 2021.

A new meat-eating dinosaur has been discovered in Argentina that possessed stubby arms like Tyrannosaurus rex.

A Bronze Age village dubbed "Britain's Pompeii" which yielded an "extraordinary window" on the period burnt down after just months, it emerges.

So many tree species are present in the Amazon basin that it would take 300 years to catalogue them all, scientists say.

Marine scientists from Israel and California have developed a microscope that for the first time provides a window into the small scale behaviour of marine life.

This koala has heterochromia, so its rescuers called it Bowie; David Bowie actually had anisocoria, unequal pupil sizes.

The Sun-powered aircraft Solar Impulse finishes its penultimate flight, landing in Egypt's capital, Cairo, after a 24-hour flight from Seville.

The American space agency's new Juno mission to Jupiter returns its first imagery since going into orbit around the gas giant last week.

Neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts have shown a small difference that may explain why the universe did not destroy itself during the Big Bang, scientists have reported at major conference.

People can carry a "silent" red hair gene that raises their risk of dangerous skin cancer, experts warn.

Grass species of crops adopt an "austerity" strategy and limits the development of its root system during times of drought, a study reveals.

How non-human archaeology revealed ancient evidence of monkey tool-use.

Climate change could have a domino effect on key infrastructure, government advisers warn in a 2,000-page report assessing risks and opportunities for the UK.

Capuchin monkeys in Brazil have used stone tools for at least 700 years, according to scientists.

The zero-fuel aeroplane, Solar Impulse, has begun what should be its penultimate flight, leaving Seville in Spain bound for Cairo in Egypt.

Radiation levels in the Pacific are almost back to their pre-Fukushima levels (except around Fukishima itself), and are expected to have fully recovered by 2020.

Archaeologists in Israel say they hope the discovery of a Philistine cemetery will shed new light on the mysterious migrant people.