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Solar plane circles globe for first time
The Solar Impulse becomes the first aircraft to circle the globe powered by the sun after landing in Abu Dhabi on the last leg of its journey.
- 26 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Dutch men revealed as world's tallest
When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a study reveals.
- 26 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
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Scans reveal how teenage brain develops
The areas of the brain involved in complex thought are the ones that change the most during the teenage years, research shows.
- 25 July 2016
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Mangroves 'can fight climate change'
- 26 July 2016
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Rare butterfly flutters back from brink
- 23 July 2016
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Drought 'shuts down Amazon carbon sink'
- 22 July 2016
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Tigers maul two women at Beijing park
- 24 July 2016
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Scientists create new super-hard metal
- 22 July 2016
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Birds 'come when called' to hunt honey
- 21 July 2016
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Sunburned dolphin spotted in firth
- 22 July 2016
- From the section Highlands & Islands
New map doubles number of brain areas
- 21 July 2016
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Vast asteroid made 'Man in Moon's eye'
- 20 July 2016
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Solar Impulse completes historic trip
- 26 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Telescopes: A giant leap for Africa
- 22 July 2016
- From the section Business
June 2016 'hottest in modern history'
- 20 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Cuckoo migration 'now more perilous'
- 20 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Brexit 'damaging science', academies warn
- 19 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Cuckoo decline finally mapped
- 19 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
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New trials for delivering goods by drones
- 26 July 2016
- From the section Business
Rare white whale spotted off Australia
- 26 July 2016
- From the section Australia
Features & Analysis
Eye to the future
Where next for solar-powered flight?
- 26 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
In pictures
Shrimp fishing among the mangroves in Cambodia
- 26 July 2016
- From the section In Pictures
Facebook's drones
A Somerset warehouse is making aircraft for the internet giant.
- 21 July 2016
- From the section Technology
Mercury 13
The women who took Nasa's secret astronaut tests
- 19 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Our Experts
Watching Tim Peake return to Earth
At first there was just a white blob in the sky, then a column of dust and, eventually, a cheery face as British astronaut Tim Peake returned to earth.
Exxon: An inconvenient truth
Matt McGrath analyses the implications of the Exxon Mobil annual general meeting, where efforts by environmental campaigners to get the company to take stronger steps on climate change were largely defeated.
Where next for solar-powered flight?
Solar Impulse's circumnavigation of the globe was a remarkable achievement, but we are not about to board such planes to go on our holidays.
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Solar Impulse completes historic trip
- 26 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Telescopes: A giant leap for Africa
- 22 July 2016
- From the section Business
June 2016 'hottest in modern history'
- 20 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Cuckoo migration 'now more perilous'
- 20 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Brexit 'damaging science', academies warn
- 19 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
Cuckoo decline finally mapped
- 19 July 2016
- From the section Science & Environment
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