VIDEO: Rare images of Tibet Snow Leopard

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Leopard even after eating snow sheep

April 26, 2014 Last updated at 09:09 BST

Rare wild snow leopard was shot in Tibet after it attacked a local pastoral sheep.

The man said the animal was too full to jump out of the sheepfold in Qiangtang Nature Reserve.

The staff of the Forest Department, the leopard was about 1.3 m long and 80 to 120 kg.

The snow leopard is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed (ICUN) Red List of Threatened Species.

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AUDIO: the shot as trophies "migratory birds

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Migratory birds "shot as trophies," says Chris Packham Malta

April 22, 2014 Last updated at 11:13 BST

Migratory birds illegally killed as "trophies" while flying over Malta, the presenter Chris Packham.

A large number of birds through the Mediterranean island, which lies along a migration route between Europe and Africa give.

The wildlife expert on the Today program, told the BBC that Malta has the "highest density" of the illegal bird hunters in the world.

But Sergei Golovkin, chief of the wild birds Regulation Unit Malta, said the use of funds of the additional forces would "significantly" reduced practice.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 's Today program Tuesday, April 22.

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VIDEO: "no bigger than a hamster" Fawn

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Born Rare Java mouse deer "big hamster" in Spain

April 25, 2014 Last updated at 23:27 BST clock

Java mouse deer, the smallest ungulates in the world baby, born at a zoo in southern Spain.

Deer newborn is "no bigger than a hamster" and weighs about 100 grams, as staff Bioparc Fuengirola, Andalusia.

Adult deer mice Java are rarely more than rabbits or weigh more than 1 kg (2.2 pounds).

Photos courtesy of Bioparc Fuengirola.

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VIDEO: What is new icebreaker like?

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What's new icebreaker Britain think?

April 25, 2014 Last updated at 12:48 BST

The United Kingdom is becoming one of the largest polar research ships worldwide capable of an icebreaker £ 200 million.

It is likely, 130m long and sports a helipad, cranes, marine laboratories, and have the ability, submarines and other weapons to use research and ocean sampling vessel.

The BBC looks at the ship.

Videos and images courtesy NERC / DOWN

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VIDEO: The film has a lot of African Park

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Battle to save the oldest national park in Africa, says in the film

April 24, 2014 Last updated at 11:22 BST

Last week, Emmanuel de Merode was raided and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he shot served as Chief Warden of Virunga National Park.

He was seriously injured but recovered.

The incident highlights the dangers usually in the park where efforts should be made to keep poachers and rebels at bay.

Capital realities of life in the Virunga National Park are the subject of a British documentary which just had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

Speaking of Movies Tom Brook reports.

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AUDIO: the shooting as trophies "migratory birds

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Migratory birds "shot as trophies," says Chris Packham Malta

April 22, 2014 Last updated at 11:13 BST

Migratory birds illegally as "Trophy" killed while flying over Malta, the presenter Chris Packham.

A large number of birds through the Mediterranean island, which lies along a migration route between Europe and Africa give.

The wildlife expert told the BBC program, Malta Today, the "highest density" of the illegal bird hunters in the world.

But Sergei Golovkin, chief of the wild birds Regulation Unit in Malta, said the use of funds of the additional forces would "significantly" reduced practice.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 's Today program Tuesday, April 22.

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VIDEO: Water voles respond to Sussex

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Water Rat Sussex Game

April 19, 2014 Last updated at 08:49 BST

The number of voles was reduced by one-fifth in the UK since 2011, the latest figures suggest.

Environmentalists say climate change and habitat loss are some of the reasons for the decline.

, However, a small part of Sussex is the water rat to survive, such as Roger Finn concerns.

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VIDEO: "But the most Earth-like planet found

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Identified "Most Earth-like planet yet" of Kepler

April 18, 2014 Updated at 04:39 BST

Been discovered, the most Earth-like planet, the scientists report in the journal Science.

The rocky planet called Kepler-186F is about the size of Earth.

In about 10% larger scientists say it could also have liquid water - a key ingredient for life - on its surface.

Tim Allman reports.

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VIDEO: The end of the beard is near

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"Pico beard": Is this the end for the facial hair?

April 16, 2014 Last updated at 11:05 BST clock

The end of the beard is nearby - not by fashion designers, but evolutionary biologists.

Australian scientists have discovered that facial hair is becoming more common, it becomes less attractive, and the shaved look is desirable to potential partners.

James Morgan, reported one of the main cities of Great Britain beard.

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VIDEO: World 'must be the use of dirty fuel end "

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Climate Change: World 'must end dirty fuel "

April 13, 2014 Last updated at 21:50 BST clock

A UN report on the expected manner to combat climate change, says the world must quickly move away from carbon-intensive energy sources.

There must be a "massive shift" to renewable energy, published in Berlin his 33-page study.

David Shukman reports.

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VIDEO: How to make a dinosaur for a move packing

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As for dinosaur remains Pack Road Trip 2000 miles

April 15, 2014 Last update 04:50 BST clock

One of the skeletons found, the most complete Tyrannosaurus moved from Montana to Washington DC. There, hundreds of millions of people will eventually be able to see it.

Within the basement of the museum, Montana, a small team of scientists has developed a dinosaur of an extraordinary road trip.

Bone the size of a child and others are just fragments were examined, photographed, lists are checked, fill placed in cribs and packaged in boxes of 16 wooded.

Jane O'Brien BBC shows you how.

Produced by Jane O'Brien and David Botti

More photos and video courtesy of the Museum of the Rockies

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VIDEO: Video of rare eclipse "Blood Moon"

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Video of rare "blood moon" eclipse visible in the Americas

April 15, 2014 Last updated at 11:15 BST

The peoples of the Americas were treated shadow of a rare earth fell on the moon sky show.

Moon shining color during a total lunar eclipse from orange to blood red to change.

Jonathan Amos Science correspondent for the BBC World what is causing the "blood moon".

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VIDEO: World 'must report the use of dirty fuel end "

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Climate Change: World 'must end dirty fuel "

April 13, 2014 Last updated at 21:50 BST clock

A UN report on the expected manner to combat climate change, says the world must quickly move away from carbon-intensive energy sources.

There must be a "massive shift" to renewable energy, published in Berlin his 33-page study.

David Shukman reports.

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Video Movies: make science exciting

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Filmmakers Challenge, Science convincing

April 11, 2014 Last updated at 14:20 BST clock

Filmmakers and scientists from around the world gathered at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland new ways to tell interactive stories to be found on science.

The five-day event, organized in collaboration with the Tribeca Film Institute, wanted to make science more accessible, and revealing the stories that the audience knew or hidden in the data or the scientific process.

David Reid relates click.

More videos on the site, click . If you are in the UK, you can see the entire program in BBC iPlayer .

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VIDEO: green investments "Triple"

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Power, green investments "Triple"

April 13, 2014 Last updated at 14:54 BST

Scientists around the world demanding a clear shift to renewable energy as a solution to the problems caused by global warming.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should be at least three times recommend the use of wind and solar energy.

Matt McGrath reports.

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AUDIO: scan shows the faces of mummies

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CT shows faces of Egyptian mummies

April 11, 2014 Last updated at 15:52 BST clock

The British Museum has CT scanner used to show the faces of ancient Egyptian mummies.

To build scanner Mummies 3D models and can show how old they were and how they will be dead.

Visitors can unpack body digital interactive displays when the "old life, new discoveries" exhibition opens in May.

Egypt museum expert, Dr. John Taylor told BBC Radio 5 live Drive : "We want people to realize that they are human beings like us again."

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VIDEO: On the bridge of the destroyer chemical Syria

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Chemical weapons in Syria Cape Ray Bridge

April 10, 2014 Last updated at 22:51 BST

Time flies to Syria to deliver their stocks of chemical weapons, the international organization is responsible for the destruction, he said.

Syria has promised to deliver its remaining stocks of components of chemical weapons until April 27.

The UN has set a deadline of 30 June for the complete destruction, a process that should take about 60 days.

Frank Gardner reported by an American ship specially adapted, designed to destroy large parts of the population.

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AUDIO: Man of bees in the experience of pain stabbed

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Students were 190 bee stings in the experience of pain

8 April 2014 Last updated at 16:04 BST

A student has bee stung 190 times - to know which part of the body hurts.

Michael Smith, Cornell University, has selected 25 sites throughout the body to let the bee sting.

Despite presents barbed wire intimate areas, found Smith that the most painful part was in the nostril.

He told BBC Radio 5 live Drive: "If you respond to all of your body ... I can not recommend it."

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AUDIO: Britain's first cloned dog is born

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British dog cloned after winning the competition

9 April 2014 Last updated at 12:41 BST

Britain's first cloned dog was born after his owner won a contest with the registration process.

The South Korean company, which usually requires £ 60,000 to clone animals, played 12 years daschund Winnie the help of his skin tissue.

His clone, called "Mini Winnie" was delivered by caesarean section at 30 Born March and is treated in South Korea.

Owner Rebecca Smith, 29, told BBC Radio 5 Live Victoria Derbyshire : "It was really incredible to see the small mini Winnie was born ... a very special moment."

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VIDEO: The Hunt for Dark Matter in the United States during the critical period

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The hunt for dark matter: the experience of the United States reached a critical stage LUX

7 April 2014 Last updated at 23:55 BST clock

Finding the search for the mysterious particles in the universe, is in a critical phase, scientists say.

Experience in the bottom of a gold mine in South Dakota, USA, was still the best opportunity to detect dark matter.

Scientists believe that this substance represents more than a quarter of the universe, but no one has ever seen directly.

The first results of this detector, called LUX, confirmed that he is the strongest in its class experience.

Rebecca Morelle reported Newsnight.

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VIDEO: 'Your ladybugs are under'

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Ladybugs are sold online to fight garden pests

6 April 2014 Last updated at 10:21 BST

With their colorful shells, Ladybug a distinctive insects in our gardens.

Besides being beautiful, they are also a useful tool for the green thumb, a natural way to pests that attack plants control.

Some companies offer Ladybug larvae for sale online, such as a more environmentally friendly alternative to pesticides.

Master Marcos Lancashire Wildlife Trust told BBC Breakfast how to get help.

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VIDEO: Explosive Theatre: Making science to life

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Explosive Theatre: Making science to life

6 April 2014 at 00:06 clock Last updated BST

A play opened at the Museum of Science, the science to inform the public wants, "without realizing it."

The Energy Show tells the story of two students, experiments, design to demonstrate the new forms of energy.

Much of the jump stage performance includes things that no one is allowed to sit in the front row of the courtroom.

Here, Martin Lamb, director and co-author of the Energy Fair, explains how science thinks theater fusion could be a passion for children under fire.

Darryl and John Fedeski Galliver Filmed

Produced by Victoria Gill

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VIDEO: Peake on the preparations for the ISS

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Tim Peake is ready, the first British astronaut will visit the ISS

4 April 2014 Last updated at 18:11 BST clock

The first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) is prepared for the journey.

Major Tim Peake to start end of 2015 and its mission should be six months on the ISS to spend conducting scientific experiments.

Correspondent Jonathan Amos Science Major Peake caught the Science Museum in London.

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VIDEO: Why is it difficult to build a kangaroo?

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Robot Pets: German scientists are bionic kangaroo

4 April 2014 Last updated at 16:14 BST clock

A team of engineers in Germany produced a bionic kangaroo can jump and regain your balance.

It is also capable of energy recovery during a jump, save them for use on your next jump.

Festo has team not as a product for the market, but as an instrument to show aspiring young engineers the power of bionics.

It is the science that studies the designs in the natural world, and tries to copy the good of the people.

Information Dougal Shaw.

Video courtesy of Festo

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VIDEO: Nasa launches flares Photos

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Sun Science: NASA released pictures solar flares

5 April 2014 Last updated 13.51 BST clock

NASA released dramatic footage of a solar flare captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Solar eruption intermediate was born on 2 Published April and reached a maximum intensity at 14:05 GMT clock.

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation and thus a sudden to the surface of the sun light.

Video courtesy of NASA

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VIDEO: Unraveling the Secrets of the Earth

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Unravel the secrets of the earth

4 April 2014 Last updated at 09:03 BST

James Lovelock is 94 years behind the scientific Gaia hypothesis, which states that the Earth is a self-regulating, single organism.

His theory has developed over 35 years and now Rough Ride will be published in the future.

Nick Higham BBC spoke to him about what he thinks the future holds.

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VIDEO: Woman 'slothified'

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The woman who saved 200 lazy

3 April 2014 Last updated at 19:25 BST

Pool Monique love lazy when she took an orphan Suriname Society for the Protection of Animals.

Since then many lazy spent much time at home on the way back in the woods - but they struggled to cope when you save up to 200 at a time.

In October 2012, a forest near the capital Paramaribo, was released and asked to be removed 14 Monique lazy.

Four days after the rescue, she realized that there are more than 14 lazy - much more.

"After a month we were in the vicinity of 100 and eventually got to 200," said Pool. "Some days I had 50 animals at home. Had 17 children at a time, which are supplied by volunteers with drops."

Video courtesy of Conservation International

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VIDEO: Big Lake Skins Saturn moon

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Great Lake "Saturn's moon Enceladus hides the water

3 April 2014 at 22:58 clock Last updated BST

The detection of an ocean of water under the surface of Saturn's moons is overwhelming, scientists from NASA and the European Space Agency.

They say it is the possibility of finding microbial life in our solar system elsewhere.

The next step is to send a ship to deepen, as reported in the science correspondent Pallab Ghosh BBC.

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VIDEO: further reconstructed dinosaur scene

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reconstructed dinosaur chase

3 April 2014 Last updated at 08:19 BST

Scientists have numerically reconstructed the scene of a dinosaur hunting - get in the mud of an ancient riverbed in Texas.

The titles were of two dinosaurs more than 110 million years are left.

There are 70 years old, was all removed track away from the river bed and is divided into blocks that have been transferred to different places to study.

Some of these blocks have been lost, but now researchers have used old photos of the reconstruction.

In this case, the project manager Peter Falkingham, the Royal Veterinary College, London, explains that the numerical model has revealed.

Video courtesy of Peter Falkingham / RVC

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VIDEO: Climate change most vulnerable poor

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The most vulnerable poor: Climate change

31 March 2014 Last updated at 19:20 BST clock

The effects of climate change are likely to be "serious, widespread and irreversible," according to a major report by the United Nations.

The report suggests that the increase in global temperatures is likely to result in a flood and extreme weather conditions such as higher risk of heat waves.

Editor David Shukman BBC science reporting.

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VIDEO: Why such high levels of pollution?

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BBC Weather: Why such high levels of pollution?

2 April 2014 Last updated at 09:08 BST

It is expected that high air pollution in England and Wales on Wednesday.

Carol Kirkwood Weather BBC explains the reasons for the decline in air quality.

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VIDEO: catastrophe after earthquake Chile declared

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Chile declared disaster areas affected by the earthquake

2 April 2014 Last updated at 10:18 BST

Chile declared three northern regions of an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 hit his in disaster areas.

At least five people are known to have died and tens of thousands of people were evacuated.

The earthquake occurred at 20:46 local time clock (clock 23.46 CET) 86 km (52 miles) northwest of the mining area of Iquique, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Alpa Patel information.

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VIDEO: Climate change: vulnerable poor

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The most vulnerable poor: Climate change

31 March 2014 Last updated at 19:20 BST clock

The effects of climate change are likely to be "serious, widespread and irreversible," according to a major report by the United Nations.

The report suggests that the increase in global temperatures is likely to result in a flood and extreme weather conditions such as higher risk of heat waves.

Editor David Shukman BBC science reporting.

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