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Exhibition explores moths' ability to adapt

8 hours 12 min ago
An exhibition examining how moths adapt to environmental changes has opened in Kestle Barton.
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Microplastics in over 75% of pet food, study finds

Fri, 06/19/2026 - 17:10
Researchers say certain brands and kinds of cat and dog food have more microplastics than others.
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Revival project for endangered native trees

Fri, 06/19/2026 - 09:38
The population of black poplar trees has dwindled to around 7,000 trees in the UK and Ireland.
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BBC Inside Science

Thu, 06/18/2026 - 23:00
How do you research the impacts of social media on young people?
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Weekly quiz: Where will Prince George be going to school?

Thu, 06/18/2026 - 20:24
How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?
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Team want to return brook to 'its absolute best'

Thu, 06/18/2026 - 14:08
Volunteers are helping clear the waterway which leads into the sea after recent silt build-ups.
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Real-time monitoring to protect chalk stream

Thu, 06/18/2026 - 08:09
Real-time pollution levels tracked along length of Hampshire's rare chalk stream.
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Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site

Thu, 06/18/2026 - 02:11
The structure consisted of two posts that lined up with the solstices 5,000 years ago.
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Simpler, older version of Stonehenge found three miles from famous site

Thu, 06/18/2026 - 02:11
The structure consisted of two posts that lined up with the solstices 5,000 years ago.
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Space industry giants visit fabrics factory

Wed, 06/17/2026 - 18:49
Delegates from Nasa and Space X were among those visiting the firm that makes specialist fabrics.
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Delhi's temperature showed 43.5C. Why did it feel hotter?

Mon, 06/15/2026 - 05:04
We spent a day out in the city with a thermal camera, recording surface temperatures indoors and outdoors.
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Elon Musk's stratospheric rise to trillionaire status - in charts

Sat, 06/13/2026 - 02:05
The BBC breaks down how the tech mogul's fortune has grown.
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Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire as SpaceX soars in stock market debut

Sat, 06/13/2026 - 01:00
Musk is now worth $1.11tn according to the Bloomberg rich list, while SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $2.2tn.
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Elon Musk gets public trading of SpaceX under way from Texas

Fri, 06/12/2026 - 18:56
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he gave the company "less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all" when it first started, and it is now going public "with the largest IPO ever".
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BBC Inside Science

Thu, 06/11/2026 - 23:00
How engineers fulfilled Gaudi’s once impossible vision for the Sagrada Familia.
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Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says

Thu, 06/11/2026 - 18:02
Climate change-induced weather events are pushing orangutan populations to extinction, says a study.
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What is El Niño and why could it mean record temperatures?

Thu, 06/11/2026 - 16:32
Global temperatures are expected to rise in the coming months as El Niño begins.
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What is El Niño and why could it mean record temperatures?

Thu, 06/11/2026 - 16:32
Global temperatures are expected to rise in the coming months as El Niño begins.
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El Niño under way and threatens weather extremes, scientists say

Thu, 06/11/2026 - 16:26
An El Niño event has officially started, say US scientists, raising fears of extreme weather and higher temperatures.
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El Niño under way and threatens weather extremes, scientists say

Thu, 06/11/2026 - 16:26
An El Niño event has officially started, say US scientists, raising fears of extreme weather and higher temperatures.
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