Science & Environment

Features & Analysis

• Cosmic swan

  A fascination of comets is their blackness

• Counting the cost

  Why we don't know how many people Ebola has killed

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• Your life on Earth

  How you and the world have changed since your birth

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• Apeman to spaceman

  Did climate change propel us to the stars?

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• Real-life 'Gravity'

  How the first human to walk in space nearly didn't return to Earth

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• Ebola treatments

  How far away is a treatment and vaccine?

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• Eye in the sky

  Hi-res surveillance system causes US controversy

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• English uber alles

  How the US changed the language of science

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• Four-legged lawnmowers Watch

  Can a team of ponies munch a meadow back to life?

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• Feeling good

  Bionic hands restore sense of touch in two patients

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• Meet Tommy

  The chimp that a rights group wants recognised as a person

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• Are we there yet?

  Is Virgin Galactic closer to the dream of commercial spaceflight?

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• Slipping away

  The last eel catcher fishing the river in Rome

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• Toxic conundrum

  Dealing with the leftovers from the Dounreay demolition job

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• Roll of the dice

  Brian Cox explores the chance events that led to humankind

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• A girl for Mars Watch

  Could 13-year-old be first human to reach red planet?

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• Unsafe and sound

  The magic of video game sound effects

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