VIDEO: & # 039; Returns & # 039; Solar Impulse

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Solar Impulse: "return" flight across the Pacific

June 29, 2015 Last updated at 14:30 BST clock

A solar airplane has passed the "point of no return" in his second attempt to make a flight log across the Pacific.

Solar Impulse took off from Nagoya in Japan at 18:03 clock GMT on Sunday.

The trip to Hawaii was about 120 hours.

Rebecca Morelle reported.

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smelliest plant blooms in Edinburgh; World & # 039: VIDEO

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Corpse Flower: smelliest plant flowers in the world to Edinburgh

June 28, 2015 Last updated at 10:41 BST

One of the largest and the world fragrant flowers bloomed for the first time in Scotland.

Visitors queued at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Rbge) where the flower must be open for two or three days.

The giant Amorphophallus titanum has a strong smell of rotting flesh. He produced seven pages in the 12 years he spent in the garden, for the producers are "very happy to finally have a flower."

Authorities said the garden is open until 21:00 clock Sunday, so that more visitors to see the flower.

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VIDEO: Sir David told Obama how to save the planet

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Sir David Attenborough interview Barack Obama in the White House

June 25, 2015 updated at 22:46 BST clock

The distinguished broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, was a visit to the White House by President Barack Obama personally invited.

The president, who is said to be a great admirer of the work of Sir David to be, wanted to discuss the future of the natural world.

David Sillito reports.

Watch President Obama's interview with Sir David Attenborough " , BBC1 on Sunday, June 28, 2230

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VIDEO: racehorses still faster

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Racehorses continue to receive better, faster curricula

June 24, 2015 Last updated at 09:12 BST

Racehorses are growing rapidly, which is the result of a study that has examined the horse races in the last 165 years.

Many in the industry believe that the speed of horse racing has reached its limit.

Pallab Ghosh reports.

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VIDEO: Hands on nature at the Museum of Oxford

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Museum of the Year list: Oxford University Museum of Natural History

June 24, 2015 Last updated at 16:36 BST clock

The Art Fund Prize 2015 Museum of the Year on 01 July.

The award recognizes the best museums and galleries across the UK.

BBC visited all the museums on the shortlist.

Oxford University Museum of Natural History was founded in 1860 as a center for scientific study at the University of Oxford.

More than 150 years later, now she wants, as we think about the natural world and is home to more than seven million copies challenge.

The museum after restoration of 14 months in 2014 reopened.

Video journalists: James Dowd and Matt Margrett

Ask about other nominated museums and galleries for the Art Fund Prize at the Museum of 2015

The BBC, in conjunction with the Art Fund

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VIDEO: Take giraffes stand for a scientist

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Under giraffes stand for a scientist

June 25, 2015 Last updated at 00:02 BST clock

Whipsnade Zoo giraffe underwent a test drive - find help researchers as they work incredibly long legs.

The team from the Royal Veterinary College , experimental animals as they go, when his great is an advantage or a disadvantage when it comes easy goes move.

The scientists hope to solve the mystery of the evolution of giraffes evolved form of their ancestors more modest furnishings.

Reports Science Reporter Victoria Gill BBC.

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VIDEO: Christopher Nolan Science Interstellar

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Christopher Nolan on Interstellar Science

June 23, 2015 Last update on 05:56 BST

An important trade magazine for the film Interstellar during school science called shown.

This gives a new view of black holes due to the generation of visual effects for the film.

The experts also confirmed that the actions of "wormholes" is scientifically correct.

Scientific work has been published in the American Journal of Physics and the classical and quantum gravity.

Interstellar director, Christopher Nolan spoke to the BBC about the importance of exact science to make the film.

Manufacturer: Regan Morris

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VIDEO: pygmy hippo calf taking its first bath

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Hippopotamus Calf leads water for the first time

June 18, 2015 Last updated at 16:47 BST clock

Pygmy hippo calf took to the water for the first time with his mother in the zoo in Melbourne.

His teacher, Justin Valentine said Obi was gaining momentum and was well done.

Obi was born on May 25 3 weeks old and now.

Adults grow to about 75 cm high and weigh about 250 kg, about one-quarter the size of a hippo full size.

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VIDEO: Pope: Global Warming & # 039; made particular people & # 039;

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Pope Francisco: climate change, especially by the people

June 18, 2015 updated at 22:56 BST clock

Pope Francisco blame human greed and selfishness, causing damage to the planet - and called to take all measures to mitigate climate change.

The observations were made in a papal encyclical, the pope a letter explaining his last teaching.

He called the richest parts of the world in order to avoid changes in lifestyle and consumption of energy, the unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem.

Caroline Wyatt BBC reported.

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VIDEO: & # 039; Carpet Crab & # 039; We cover beaches

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'Crab mats "includes US beaches

June 19, 2015 Updated 07:03 BST

Hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs were washing on the beaches of Southern California in the United States after the warm ocean currents bring closer to the shore than usual.

Bluefin tuna crabs were flocking to die on the beaches of San Diego, Orange County, as Ben refers Sosa.

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VIDEO: & # 039; Shark Bites left arm & # 039;

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"Shark Bites left arm '

June 17, 2015 Last updated at 09:11 BST clock

A teenager who lost his left arm in a shark attack in North Carolina on Sunday spoke of when the shark attacked.

From his hospital bed in New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Treschl Hunter said that despite his injuries, he was determined to live, "with the cards I've been dealt, a normal life."

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VIDEO: Pope: The heating is & # 039; made particular people & # 039;

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Pope Francisco: climate change, especially by the people

June 18, 2015 Last update on 05:48 BST

To the Bishops a letter - - The Pope will deliver his encyclical Environment Friday.

Pope Francisco will probably say that climate change is primarily a human problem and call the richer parts of the world in order to avoid changes in lifestyle and energy consumption to unprecedented destruction ecosystem.

Religious affairs correspondent for the BBC, reported Caroline Wyatt.

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VIDEO: Scientists Philae & # 039; hugged driver & # 039;

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Monica Grady: Driver hugged me when I heard the news Philae

June 14, 2015 Last updated at 18:06 BST clock

The European Space Agency (ESA) said that his landing module comet, Philae, woke up and contact with the earth.

Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, was dropped on the surface of the comet 67P by his mother, Rosetta, in November last year.

Professor Monica Grady, an incorporated by a team from the Open University in the project, described the news as "absolutely fantastic" and said the BBC what it meant for space science.

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VIDEO: Could you give up meat for one day?

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Could you give up meat for one day?

June 15, 2015 Last updated at 09:04 BST

A new campaign asks us to give up for the day, meat - say that it is harmful to our health and the planet.

A report by the environmental organization Carbon Trust said, the cattle consume far more resources for the production of other types of food, and unsustainable.

John Maguire says.

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VIDEO: Pope calls for action on global warming

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Pope calls for action on global warming in the leaked document

June 16, 2015 updated at 03:07 BST clock

An Italian magazine published a leaked draft of the papal encyclical on climate change, which will be published on Thursday.

Therein lays the pope Francisco a lot of responsibility for global warming on human activity and calls for all people, not just Catholics, to prevent the destruction of the ecosystem before the end of the century.

Chris Cook report.

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Control training mission Cornwall hosts: VIDEO

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Control training for the space mission in Cornwall

June 11, 2015 Last updated at 09:08 BST clock

Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall organized a training course for drivers of future space mission.

To learn space science researchers worldwide, Mission Control goes.

David George reported.

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VIDEO: What & # 039; Life out in space?

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What is it like to spend months in space?

June 11, 2015 Last updated at 15:38 BST clock

Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti a world record for the most time in space by a woman spent on a mission - 200 days.

But what it feels like to spend the whole time in the room? BBC News has a look.

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The Attention; How Cristoforetti captured world & # 039: VIDEO

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As astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti captured the world's attention

June 11, 2015 Last updated at 10:26 BST

Cristoforetti Samantha worked in space for more than six months and was an Internet sensation, images of the earth and Twitter give even cooking classes while in weightlessness.

He spent more time in orbit than any other woman, after being on the International Space Station 200 days.

Ben Geoghegan says.

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VIDEO: & # 039; Scientists seemed shocked & # 039;

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"Women scientists watched in horror" on observations of Sir Tim Hunt

June 10, 2015 Last updated at 11:04 BST

A Nobel Prize scientists sparked outrage by. Sexist comments at a conference of scientists and leading journalists in South Korea

Sir Tim Hunt at the conference that there are three problems with women in the lab: "You fall in love with you fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, you're crying."

Connie St Louis, professor of science journalism at the University of the city that was at the conference, the reaction described in the room.

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VIDEO: Zimbabwe sends rhinos in Botswana

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Zimbabwe rhinos in Botswana sends the conservation efforts

June 10, 2015 Last Updated 21:31 BST

Poaching of rhinos in Africa with millions of unions is growing at the expense of endangered species and their horns.

In an effort to change the equation in the region of southern Africa, Zimbabwe has 10 rhinos in Botswana donated as part of a conservation effort that spread throughout the region.

Brian Hungwe BBC reported.

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VIDEO: The astronauts prepare return to Earth

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ISS astronauts prepare return to Earth

June 11, 2015 Last updated at 08:28 BST clock

Three astronauts began their return to Earth from the International Space Station, one month after a failed rocket delayed a first attempt.

The commander of Expedition 43, Terry Virts and teammates Samantha Cristoforetti Anton Shkaplerov and spent six months aboard the ISS conducting scientific research and demonstrations of technology.

Ms. Cristoforetti the record for the most time in space in a single mission by a woman.

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VIDEO: Film anti-cyclonic storm chasers

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It Sturmjäger film anticyclonic tornadoes Colorado

June 9, 2015 at 16:39 clock Last updated BST

Storm Chaser Travis Cruz captured images of large tornado swirl over fields in Colorado.

Mr. Cruz said the tornado was known to the right, as an anti-cyclonic movement. Rotate Most tornadoes in the Northern Hemisphere counterclockwise.

Video: Storm Cruzzer

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VIDEO: If cousin of T-Rex to go into the program

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T-Rex remains distant cousin are in the program

June 9, 2015 at 16:01 clock Last updated BST

A fossilized skeleton of a carnivorous dinosaur of the Jurassic on a beach in South Wales has been found, place for the first time.

The small theropod dinosaur is a distant cousin of the giant Tyrannosaurus Rex.

His remains were discovered by brothers Nick and Rob fossil hunting Hanigan.

Pallab Ghosh reports.

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VIDEO: launched helium balloon to test landings

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Nasa launches helium balloon to test landings on Mars

June 8, 2015 Last updated 20:28 BST

NASA has a helium balloon started to test the possible landing systems for future missions to Mars.

The balloon flew from Hawaii with a saucer on a pilot basis weight.

NASA wants to see if there is slow saucer as it fell - and if this technology can be used for landings on Mars.

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VIDEO: The former director of Greenpeace questions the GM position

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Ex food head position GM Greenpeace questions

June 8, 2015 at 23:50 clock Last updated BST

The former director of Greenpeace UK told the BBC that he believes now that it will oppose "morally wrong" to genetically modified plants.

He was speaking to Panorama - Scientists call for new GM crops could help the environment and food.

, But insists Greenpeace that we not be certain that genetically modified foods are safe.

Tom Heap report.

You can see the full program, Panorama: GM food growing fear in BBC iPlayer

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VIDEO: The challenge of balancing robot

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DARPA Robotics Challenge: Los Angeles step Robots

June 7, 2015 at 15:27 clock Last updated BST

The robots are on an obstacle course at the fair Pentagon Los Angeles County in the competition.

KAIST Korea team beat 22 other the $ 2 million higher (€ 1.3 million) to win the Price Department of Defense DARPA with its walking humanoid Hubo-DRC.

Only we keep as a challenge for some competitors of metal as reported in the BBC World TV. In itself

DARPA Robotics Challenge South Korean Won

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VIDEO: Creating energy from Offal

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Uganda slaughterhouse produces energy from waste

June 8, 2015 at 08:22 clock Last updated BST

People probably do not think about, but which is produced when animals are slaughtered waste - including blood and feces - should in a way that will eliminate any impact on the environment.

In Uganda, the. Since a particular problem with slaughterhouse waste leakage in the capital Kampala on Lake Victoria

But now there is a new solution, called Catalina Byaruhanga.

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VIDEO: How to make meals in space?

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Italian astronaut shows you how to make a meal in the room

June 6, 2015 Last updated at 10:53 BST

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti showed how to make a meal on board the International Space Station.

His tips include the use of tortillas, and do not leave crumbs and cream peas, to tie everything in zero gravity.

ESA allows the astronauts, some "food-bonus" bring missions - far from the days of freeze-dried foods Fed.

Courtesy of ESA / NASA

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VIDEO: Baby & # 039 Cuban crocodiles; home & to go # 039;

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Back home, "Cuban crocodiles

June 5, 2015 at 23:45 clock Last updated BST

Ten baby crocodile breeding arrived in Cuba after being transferred from a zoo in Sweden.

His parents are given a pair of Cuban crocodiles on a Soviet cosmonaut in the 1970s by the former Cuban president Fidel Castro.

Veterinarians at the hatchery hope will contribute to the declining number of animals in Cuba.

Grant reports.

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VIDEO: ScottishPower spend £ 2000000000 in the wind

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New offshore wind farm: If the price is up or down?

June 5, 2015 at 11:30 clock Last updated BST

ScottishPower build a wind farm about 40 km off the coast of East Anglia - at a cost of £ 2 billion - to power half a million homes.

But wind power is not cheap - so we end up paying more or less?

ScottishPower Chief Keith Anderson spoke with Ben Thompson.

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VIDEO: Close up look at the new Virgin spaceship

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Close up look at the new Virgin Galactic spaceship

June 4, 2015 at 06:02 clock Last updated BST

Virgin Galactic was the construction of a new layout space in a hangar in the desert in the United States.

Eight months ago, in October 2014, the Virgin Galactic space plane crashed in the California desert, killing one of the pilots.

The current project is since 2012 under way.

Transport the BBC Richard Westcott is in terms of space.

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Night image of the Galapagos eruption: VIDEO

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Galapagos eruption: Video shows Loup volcano spews lava

June 2, 2015 at 20:33 clock Last updated BST

Dramatic pictures were Wolf washes Ecuador volcano spews into the ocean.

The Galapagos National Park has published the images after the last volcano erupted for the first time in 33 years last week.

The volcano is located on the northern tip of Isabela Island, the largest archipelago.

BBC reports Tim Wilcox.

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VIDEO: & # 039; We knew we faced challenges and # 039;

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"We knew we were facing challenges"

June 1, 2015 at 09:51 clock Last updated BST

The level is an attempt to circumnavigate powered only by the sun, the world is forced to make a landing in Japan due to bad weather.

The Solar Impulse, which controlled by André Borschberg now, had been trying to cross the Pacific.

He began his most difficult of a little more than a day trip stage, there are in China and moved to Hawaii.

There was a cold front over the Pacific Ocean threats, and no way obvious.

Solar Impulse control center in Monaco Bertrand Piccard, said he knew she challenges.

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VIDEO: underwater robot designed to mimic nature

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ROV are designed to mimic the natural

June 1, 2015 Last updated at 10:07 BST

The Cocoro project is a collaboration between several universities and European targets to create a swarm of autonomous interaction of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).

AUVs are programmed to mimic the collective traits of various animals and fish, and to expect robots to work together as agencies do in real life.

Click to BBC spoke with Thomas Schmickl Artificial Life Laboratory in Graz, Austria, in the project.

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