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Pluto may have 'nitrogen glaciers'
Pluto would appear to have glaciers of nitrogen ice, the latest pictures from the New Horizons probe suggest.
- 24 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
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Device limits aircraft bomb impact
A new system that contains the explosion of bombs smuggled onto aircraft has been successfully tested.
- 24 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Four-legged snake fossil discovered
Scientists find the first ever four-legged snake, which lived at the time of the dinosaurs and probably dug burrows.
- 24 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Step forward for computing by light
- 24 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
'Earth 2.0' found by Nasa telescope
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Rudd criticised for climate plans
- 24 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Plastic bag use rises for fifth year
- 24 July 2015
- From the section UK
Ban lift on controversial pesticide
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Income bars access to natural beauty
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Bronze Age skeleton found at dig
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Wiltshire
Engineers create origami bridge
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Boa constrictors' lethal secret revealed
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
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All the Pluto pictures in 60 seconds
- 24 July 2015
- From the section News
Soyuz successfully docks at ISS
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Rare wildcat kittens emerge from den
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Campaign to preserve Armstrong spacesuit
- 21 July 2015
- From the section US & Canada
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World's deepest 'space' pool plan
- 22 July 2015
- From the section Essex
New 'blue marble' picture delights
- 21 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Features & Analysis
Back from the brink
Hard work saves Spanish lynx from extinction
- 25 July 2015
- From the section Europe
Salt and fresh
Trying to predict the South Asian monsoon by studying the ocean
- 24 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Arsenic threat
Is it safer to cook rice in a coffee percolator?
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Magazine
Our Experts
New Horizons: Why bother exploring the Solar System?
David Shukman examines why it's important to continue exploring the Solar System.
David Shukman
Science editor
Pluto flyby: Meet the 'King of the Kuiper Belt'
The New Horizons flyby of Pluto inaugurates a new era of space exploration that will open up the Solar System's "third zone".
Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent
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All the Pluto pictures in 60 seconds
- 24 July 2015
- From the section News
Soyuz successfully docks at ISS
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Rare wildcat kittens emerge from den
- 23 July 2015
- From the section Science & Environment
Campaign to preserve Armstrong spacesuit
- 21 July 2015
- From the section US & Canada
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