Why climate scientists are analysing the world's oldest ice core
30 July 2025
Antarctica's oldest ice arrives for analysis at British Antarctic Survey, but will it be able to solve the mystery of our planet's climate cycle shift?
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Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness is a quest to understand utopia itself
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Adam Roberts' Lake of Darkness sets out to be a utopia novel, but it could have easily been called Space Satan instead
Which sci-fi movies predicted the future accurately?
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Astronomer Ed Bloomer examines how well science fiction films have predicted futures that, by now, are already part of our past
Storm-chasing scientists hunt for the world’s most extreme hail
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As dozens of meteorologists undertake the largest ever study of extreme hail, ×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ environment reporter James Dinneen rides into the storm inside a fortified truck called the Hail Hunter
Researchers re-enact a 30,000 year old sea voyage
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Recreating a 30,000-year-old journey, researchers cross a powerful ocean current in a Stone Age-style canoe, proving how early humans may have reached Japan from Taiwan.
Quick test reveals illegal elephant ivory disguised as mammoth tusks
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Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory
A closer look at Enigmacursor, the newly discovered dinosaur species
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Palaeontologist breaks down all there is to know about the newest dinosaur species discovery, now on display at the Natural History Museum, London
Look inside the revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory
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×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ's behind the scenes look at the telescope about to open a new eye on the universe
How doomed Arctic explorer inspired sci-fi romantic thriller novel
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Author Kaliane Bradley delves into the making of her best-selling novel The Ministry of Time
Unlocking genetic secrets of the world's most vital fungi collection
11 June 2025
An inside look at the extensive, weird and wonderful fungi collection at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the ongoing projects hoping to make this menagerie the most valuable in the world
