12.29.2016

12.28.2016

Cheetahs threatened with extinction, according to a study

Urgent action is needed to stop the Cheetah - the fastest land animal on the planet - at risk, scientists say.

A study by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States estimates published that there are about 7,000 in the wild in Africa and a small area are now only Iran.

Matt McGrath reports.

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12.23.2016

Baby rescued orangutans out of the taxi, Thailand

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Two baby orangutans were rescued from the back of a taxi in Thailand.

12.22.2016

Baby Gorilla moves with the new mother in Bristol Zoo

A hand-raised baby gorilla was 10 months born to live with a foster mother.

Afia, Western Lowland Gorilla, was abandoned by caesarean emergency for his life after birth to fight and had to be supported by the staff of Bristol Zoo.

Reintroduction gorillas began in October when Afia began an affair with his spare Romina.

Kera their biological mother was too ill to take care of Afia, said the zoo.

Video courtesy of Bristol Zoo.

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Rover with open eyes Madagascar

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Threatened by habitat loss and hunting of lemurs of Madagascar, a species threatened with extinction, they find refuge in a private reserve.

12.19.2016

China finds a new love for wildlife films

British cameraman Jacky Poon China is among the very few professionals documenting endangered animals hidden extinction in the mountains and valleys of China.

Many Chinese have animal films has been introduced this year after the first blockbuster of nature, born in China, has an impressive debut in cinemas and nature documentary called Monkey mystery of Shangri-La, I made a won Emmy nomination.

Jacky hear what it feels like part of the wildlife to be budding film industry in China.

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12.16.2016

launched Pegasus rocket from below the plane into life

Eight satellites about the size of a small suitcase, from Cape Canaveral is lifted launched on a rocket from the ground an aircraft respectively.

It was the third launch attempt by NASA.

Hopefully the satellite will measure the wind speed in stormy weather.

Current satellites can not accurately measure when it rains a lot, so meteorologists have to rely on "hurricane hunting" aircraft.

Videos courtesy of NASA TV.

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A stroll through a laser scanning Forest

Scientists use lasers "weigh" of trees exactly in the tropical forests.

Researchers at the University College of London and the National Physical Laboratory created an animation laser scanning their trees, which were presented at the meeting of the British Ecological Society in Liverpool .

The process could be monitored by deforestation and combat help calculate with more of precision the amount of carbon in the stored tropical forests , so that a financial value can be attributed to the forest in touch.

Animation, courtesy of Dr. Kim Calders. Video produced by Victoria Gill

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12.15.2016

How do you drill into a volcano 500C?

Updated December 14, 2016 Last 22:50 GMT

Scientists in Iceland are drilling a volcano to harness energy from below ground.

The hole is at 5 km deep and is expected to reach a temperature of 400C (752F) and 1000C.

Rebecca Morelle reported.

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12.14.2016

Earth II: Attenborough & # 039; mark epic

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David Attenborough epic as the famous planet seen from the earth II reached its conclusion on Sunday evening the BBC.

12.13.2016

Sir David Attenborough & # 039; mark epic

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David Attenborough epic as the famous planet seen from the earth II reached its conclusion on Sunday evening the BBC.

12.12.2016

creating urban beekeeping a buzz

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With concern about the decline of bees in the UK, the University of London a haven for insects has created on a roof.

12.11.2016

free up to try spaceship launched space junk: Japan ISS Kounotori

Japan launched a cargo ship, which hold a 700 meters (half a mile) -Long to some of the large amount of debris removed using in orbit.

The fastener, made of aluminum wires and steel, is designed to reduce to pull out of orbit, the speed of the debris.

The ship will also deliver supplies to the International Space Station.

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12.10.2016

were discovered 100 million years dinosaurs tail

We tend not to think of the pens when we think of dinosaurs, but we should. Many of them had feathers; it's just that we have not found many fossils. Well, now scientists have discovered a new sample, which are very excited.

Professor Mike Benton, from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, working in China with colleagues on the fossil to work.

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Earth II is a kind of & # 039; s response to the real meaning?

Apparently, it is to take over not only the experience and the planning of each epic episode of Planet Earth II. The producers of the show told us that it involved a lot of "luck" in all environments in the detection of rare animals.

The final episode is scheduled for this Sunday evening. Mike Gunton, executive producer and Fredi Devas, the producer of the final episode this Sunday, "cities" are the program today from the perspective of an insider of the series is the second television always' s most - watched year after the Great British Bake Off ,

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12.09.2016

Giraffes added to the endangered list

Giraffes were classified as threatened with extinction by a dramatic decline in the last 30 years.

The population increased from around 155,000 in 1985 to 97,000 in 2015, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The iconic animal has been declined due to loss of habitat, poaching and unrest in many parts of Africa.

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John Glenn: dies to circle first American astronaut to Earth

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Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, died 95 years Pallab Ghosh day look back in history.

12.08.2016

Doubt reluctant & # 039 casting; save lives & # 039; pans

It was expected that a large clinical trial in Malawi shows that children are healthier when they live in a house, cooked the food in a wood smoke rather than an open fire. But the study, whose results were published in the Lancet, found no difference in rates of pneumonia in children.

The disease is a leading cause of death in young children in developing countries, signals can be triggered, which hinder and irritate the developing lungs of children by continuous exposure to smoke particles.

BBC News science reporter Victoria Gill has followed this trial since it began. Here is Principal Investigator Dr. Kevin Mortimer explains the importance of the results and his own disappointment that "intervention by the chef" had no effect on the health and survival of young children in the poorest regions of the poorest countries of the world.

Video Victoria Gill

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illuminated Siberian sky Meteor

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People in Western Siberia have captured images of what is believed to be a small meteorite.

12.03.2016

Hunter Mitchell has raised thousands of dollars to save the rhinos Osita.

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Hunter Mitchell has raised thousands of dollars to save the rhinos Osita.

great escape; Alligator Snapping Turtle & # 039

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A huge crocodile turtle was put blocks in a drainpipe in Houston, Texas.

11.27.2016

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Scientists say they have discovered 30 new species in underground caves, after a two-year search.

11.25.2016

It is time to take the garbage from space

Scientists warn that space debris is now in low Earth orbit, so must measures.

Next year a new mission is planned to reach places where no collection of garbage has gone before. For the BBC Newsnight , he reported science correspondent Rebecca Morelle.

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11.24.2016

Thanksgiving: eat What American astronauts in space

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Shane Kimbrough NASA Astronaut showed the specialties that prepare them for Thanksgiving dinner for the crew on board the International Space Station this year.

11.18.2016

How to Make More Plants make use sunlight

Scientists have improved ", the most important biological process on the planet" - photosynthesis.

The advance, published in the journal Science published is genetic modification used to the amount of energy crops can increase from sunlight channeling food production.

This increased efficiency in the experimental cultivation of 15%.

The researchers say that this is a key to feed the agricultural production to increase a growing world population step.

Science reporter Victoria Gill BBC explains the results.

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Peggy Whitson: Takeoff to the ISS for older woman in space

Astronaut Peggy Whitson took into the room for his third mission from the International Space Station.

He took from Baikonur cosmodrome from Kazakhstan and is the oldest woman to be in the room when she turns 57 mission.

On board with him the Soyuz spacecraft is cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, the Russian and French newcomer Thomas Pesquet.

Videos and courtesy of NASA TV

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11.16.2016

What makes your perfect cup of coffee?

Mathematicians are closer to understanding a step, making a perfect cup of coffee.

The calculations can help coffee drinkers optimize your cup of tea a more precise approach.

Bryony BBC Hopkins asked a sample of London for his idea of ​​the perfect cup of coffee.

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11.13.2016

Scientists in the world of dance at the Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet and the School of Sport, Health and Applied Sciences (SAHS) at the University of Santa Maria, Twickenham combined forces to provide support for dancers sports science.

BBC went backstage at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, to find out what that means for the dancers.

Video Journalist Alex Stanger, Producer: Claudia Redmond

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11.11.2016

The dinosaur blown into oblivion

A newly discovered dinosaur species from an unusually complete fossil identified nearly destroyed by dynamite.

Beaked kept up with feathered wings used in the mud, which was the scene when he died there 72 million years ago, it was one of the last surviving dinosaurs in Asia.

He was limosis Tongtianlong, named "muddy dragon on the way to heaven."

The discovery was published in Nature Scientific Reports .

Photos courtesy of Dr. Stephen Brusatte and Zhao Chuang artist's impression

Video Victoria Gill

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Sniffing smallpox scab ...

Sniffing dried scabs of smallpox in the 11th century from China to the virtual eradication of the disease in the 1970s, condensed Jake Yapp the history of vaccination in four minutes.

Discover you everything that we think , used the theme of gravity. Look for the funniest videos with Jake Yapp.

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11.09.2016

Jeremy the & # 039; Lefty & # 039; Snail found love?

Jeremy Snail "Lefty" has found a partner. After a public call for the program today rolled another rare snail snail finding left or a match is found.

It is love at first sight? Dr Angus Davison, screw resident expert at the University of Nottingham, Melton returned with Jade (snail enthusiasts a new partner Lefty found) to explain what will happen.

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11.07.2016

Giant snowballs on the beach in Russia

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A beach in Siberia was transformed from natural giant snowballs.

11.05.2016

How to get a Komodo dragon of Indonesia in your bathroom

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Camera Team Planet Earth II returned from filming to find any unwanted visitors.

11.03.2016

Baby Rhino takes first bath

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A newborn rhino white American Zoo City Des Moines born, took his first bath.

Students will learn the results of the experiment ISS Space Seed

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Thousands schoolchildren perform experiments helped if the seeds to see that develop in space, and those who stayed on Earth.

11.02.2016

published thousands of hatchlings in the Peruvian Amazon

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Taricaya thousands of baby turtles were in the Peruvian Amazon as part of efforts to publish to save them from extinction.

11.01.2016

Vampires are more real than you think

ghostly figures, skeletons and witches are on our streets tonight for Halloween, but what was the original idea behind vampire?

Now it seems, Dracula and the work of other authors Gothic Inspired by medical reports. Nick Freund, known as "Gothic Professor" at the University of Exeter, said in the program today .

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10.27.2016

Wipes thrown into sewers of water companies

Millions of pounds outflows due wipes unlock will be spent flushed down the toilet all.

Britian water companies call trade rules the wet wipe business label to stop as flushable - although the Association manufacturers the towels are not to blame.

Jayne research McCubbin.

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10.26.2016

Jo Johnson and Martyn Poliakoff conducted scientific evidence

Science Minister Jo Johnson and Professor Martyn Poliakoff politics and science mix of carbon dioxide to seek ocean acidification.

Politics Daily reporter Ellie price is provided by the teacher available is the "very confident" experience was would before not explode.

It was part of the day Nottingham Parliament with the events of chemistry, cooking and entertainment in Westminster to mark the city.

More Follow @daily_politics on Twitter and like you us on Facebook and see a new video and see the complete programs on iPlayer

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to measure new project of air pollution in the air UK

The scientists conducted the first flight test of a project to measure the air pollution in the UK from the air.

The Research Council Natural Environment begin to fly a mission through and analyze emitted pollution swaths of urban areas throughout the country.

The goal is to build a picture of how the country can achieve the goals of the air quality, to reduce the amount of pollutants that are harmful to human health.

Our science reporter Victoria Gill joined the team on the flight.

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10.23.2016

Drone captures images rare whale

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Canadian scientists use drones images of a rare whale in the Arctic to capture.

10.21.2016

How our brain & become # 039; bodiless & # 039;

Italian scientists have discovered how the brain can be tricked to our own members feel disembodied.

Scientists from the universities of Turin and Milan are already with brain-damaged patients whose meaning is changed worked for "Property of the body".

use Well, a very strange thing, the illusion of the rubber hand healthy volunteers called scientists from changes in the brain occur when building we lose our sense measure that our members are part of our body.

The results are published in the journal eLife .

Filmed and edited by Victoria Gill

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10.19.2016

Astronauts enter China & # 039; space station

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A pair of astronauts entered the space station Tiangong-2 China, as they begin the longest manned space mission in the country.

ExoMars and what you do?

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Science reporter Victoria Gill BBC explains that the European Mars mission to find out hopes.

10.18.2016

caught humpback whale in shark nets

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A humpback whale calf was caught in shark nets on the Gold Coast in Australia.

Is this the end for Buckeye?

be attacked in the UK Buckeye by a combination of pests and diseases that horse chestnut disappear could cause, scientists warn.

Dr. Darren Evans of the University of Newcastle, is one of the founders of Conker Tree Science project, which aims to encourage the public to participate in the collection of records of these pests.

The talks on the program today infested by a parasite, the trees.

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Work begins on £ 200m Attenborough Polar Ship

The construction of 200 m £ polar research vessel in the UK, UN Sir David Attenborough began officially at Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead.

The choice of the name of the vessel was known by an online vote where the public the name Boaty McBoatface chose. appoint However, the ship RRS Sir David Attenborough, the famous naturalist and participated in a special ceremony to mark construction.

Our science reporter Victoria Gill was in the yard.

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10.16.2016

Poland & # 039; mathematical puzzles of honor

the Enigma code Nazi Cracking has played a crucial role in the Second World War. The work of British mathematician Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park is good, it is also known, turned into a Hollywood movie.

But what is less known is the fact the country by mathematicians in Poland. Well, on Saturday, which were recognized in the Polish Embassy in London, where reported Kasia Madera.

This report presents Sir Dermot Turing, Alan Turing's nephew and Jeremy Russell, the nephew of Henryk Zygalski.

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enjoy giant panda twins first anniversary at the Toronto Zoo

Video Giant Panda small twins to celebrate their first year has been released from a zoo.

Jia Jia and drum Yueyue am Zoo in Toronto, Canada, was born in October 2015 after his parents arrived from China last year.

According to Chinese custom for babies in the zoo organized four boxes with four Chinese characters inscribed - the money, happiness, life and bamboo means - leave small to select.

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John Goodenough, whose work led to the lithium-ion battery

The work of Professor John Goodenough led to the invention of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery that is part of almost all portable electronic devices.

Now 94 years old and a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, Goodenough speaks to John Humphrys todays problems Samsung batteries catching fire, why he never won a Nobel Prize, and why not as the mobile phone.

(Photo :. John Goodenough Credit: University of Texas at Austin).

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10.10.2016

Baby Rhino steals talkshow BBC

Port Lympne Park Attraction Aspinall Foundation in Kent welcomed the arrival of two calves critically endangered black rhino in Tanzania.

Babies born two female rhinos in 2012 sent to the British fleet to Africa.

Adrian Harland Port Lympne Wild Animal Park said it was "extraordinary news for us."

As discussed reproductive success, stole a young rhino in Kent Park the show.

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10.08.2016

Hadfield: & # 039; You should 039 the dark & ​​# fear;

After a career of 25 years with the Canadian Space Agency, NASA, Commander Chris Hadfield wrote about his childhood experience in children 's book, The Darkest darkness.

Commander Hadfield said Hoy Sarah Montague that fear is natural - but what you do with your fear dictate your life.

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10.07.2016

Hawaii & # 039; s Kilauea volcano near

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Archival published by the US Geological Survey launched at the summit of Kilauea volcano Hawaii from lava into life.

Helicopter car and other visions of the future of Africa

held an exhibition for young scientists in the South African city of Johannesburg.

More than 500 students from all over Africa to participate and their latest inventions shows, including a flying car prototype. BBC Africa met with some of them and know what they think that scientific questions.

Video Journalist Christian Parkinson

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Under 50 years of volcanic eruptions less than a minute

Half a century of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes on the planet were visualized in an animation application.

It was created by the US Geological Survey with data from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

The centerpiece is the animation Click-and-play show each eruption and earthquake , which in the last 50 years. The country

Volcano Photo courtesy of: US Geological Survey; 2016 Fire Trail: Moussallam and / I Schipper / A Curtis / Barnie T / P & N Peters Bani; Geoffry Avard 2016

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10.05.2016

British police led to poaching of birds in Cyprus

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British authorities in Cyprus the number of agents determined Songbird illegal capture in British military field, doubled on the island.

Nobel Prize: & # 039; Follow Your Dreams & # 039;

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Professor Haldane Duncane is one of three British-born physics researchers to win the Nobel Prize.

10.04.2016

Shoot butterfly photo bombs koala at the zoo in Australia

A butterfly befriended a Koala Joey in Wildlife Park Symbio New - South Wales, Australia, with adorable results.

It was during the shooting of the film about zoos sustainability initiatives.

Videos courtesy of Symbio Wildlife Park.

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10.03.2016

Coronal loops arch above the Sun NASA images

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Solar Dynamics Observatory of NASA catches a nice coronal loops over an area with strong magnetic fields by eye.

photo bombs shots butterfly Koala in Australia Zoo

A butterfly befriended a Koala Joey in Wildlife Park Symbio New - South Wales, Australia, with adorable results.

It was during the shooting of the film about zoos sustainability initiatives.

Videos courtesy of Symbio Wildlife Park.

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10.01.2016

Rosetta Mission: & # 039; Very sad, but heredity is & # 039;

Professor Monica Grady of the Open University talks concluded on mission about the legacy of Rosetta and reflections.

Professor Grady worked on a project Tolomeo tool called - a gas-analysis toolbox size.

She completed her mission Rosetta comet 67P by a forced landing on the surface of the frozen object.

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confirmed Rosetta mission probe has control & # 039; Star & # 039;

Europe's Rosetta probe completed its mission to comet 67P by a forced landing on the surface of the frozen object.

mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, was able, the effects occurred when the radio contact was lost with the spacecraft abruptly confirm aging.

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9.30.2016

Spacecraft Rosetta & # 039; such emergency landing

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Rosetta, broadcast the spectacular images of a comet, his trip ends to crash.

fly aboard a plane through the jet stream

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Science editor David Shukman will begin on the measurement plane of the jet stream, to find out how it affects our time.

9.28.2016

Huge blue topaz stone gave the Museum of Natural History

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A blue topaz stone is believed to be the biggest, it will go on bail at the Natural History Museum.

Why Europe anyone water column?

obtain additional evidence to show that Jupiter's icy moon Europa water squirts into the room.

Michele Dougherty, professor of space physics at Imperial College London, told the Today program about the importance of the discovery in the search for extraterrestrial life.

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Why this woman flies 4500 miles?

British ecologist Sacha Dench is the first step in an epic miles paramotor flight 4500, which leads to the Russian Arctic in the UK.

It Flyway Bewick swan trying to understand why their number is halved in the past two decades continued.

Your flight transported over 10 weeks in 11 countries, strong winds and cold - and finally through the channel -. In an attempt to observe the habits of swans and discover the dangers they are exposed as they fly

The BBC team in Moscow was to meet Sacha in one of its judgments.

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9.27.2016

the moon; colored water dripping Jupiter & # 039

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Jupiter's moon Europa, closer to detect a step, whether said Life in Space NASA that the water jets Welling saw.

9.26.2016

Pangolin: The majority of victims of trafficking in mammals worldwide

The little known to the victim pangolins mammals in the world, the fears could disappear.

A meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to be in South Africa this week instead of the illegal pangolin trade could make.

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9.25.2016

How to encourage hedgehogs in your garden

Hedgehogs are in dramatic decline, has lost a quarter of the population in the last decade.

Now you are more likely to see a hedgehog in an urban garden in the countryside.

Funk House by Andrew Bomford came with Henry Johnson, an officer urchins to promote like hedgehogs in your garden.

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9.24.2016

Scientists solve the mystery of singing fish

If the barge California residents heard ringing their submarine in the 1980s, they thought that they could come from noisy sewage pumps, military experience or even aliens.

But it was the lively nightlife of Ensign; an appeals court, and the source of a secret biologists have decided.

The researchers conducted the fish in his laboratory to understand why the night sang.

The results of the teams from the United States - are published in the journal Current Biology .

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9.23.2016

Four rare white lion cubs born in Poland

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Four rare white lion cubs were born at a zoo in Poland.

Prince William: & # 039; We need more trade in illegal ivory do & # 039;

The Duke of Cambridge has called on world leaders to do more to combat illegal wildlife trade.

At an event in London nonprofit Tusk, Prince William said he was not ready to tell their children, "why we lost this battle when we had the tools to win."

His comments before the meeting will be held in Johannesburg.

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Neck; See what can do a button battery on a child & # 039

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Fergus Walsh Medical correspondent shows what can happen when a button battery is housed in a neck of the child, to warn by the surgeon about the risks.

9.22.2016

Asian Studies Queen Wasp

Invasive Hornet Killer Bees was discovered in the UK for the first time.

The Asian hornet is near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and is working to find their nests and destroy.

Nicola Spence, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, explains how the queen wasp was to find the only way to stop the spread.

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Fearnley-Whittingstall ivory trade & # 039; Ban & # 039;

There should be a total ban on ivory sales, which can be as old, not verified, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall boss who was examined trade in a new documentary.

The trade in ivory is legal only if it is classified as an antique, which is more than 70 years, but the British government should tighten the rules in the coming days.

Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall said today program - Presenter Nick Robinson that illegal ivory merges with the legal "very fast" on the world market ivory.

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9.21.2016

If your cat on a leash?

Kill all year Cat billions of birds and other animals in the world and must be leashed or suppressed, according to a new book.

Dr. Peter Marra, author of Cat Wars and cat behavior specialist Dr John Bradshaw discussed whether cats should be allowed in the circulating program today .

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Bangkok: lizards Lumpini Park raided

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A park in Bangkok was overrun by lizards.

indestructible microtiter; Knowing the Earth & # 039

Researchers have discovered a secret "robust animal" genetic survival of earth. A gene that scientists have identified in this strange aquatic creatures - called tardigrades - help, cooking in order to survive, freezing and radiation.

University of Computer from out Tokyo have a specific gene Tardigrade discovered a DNA protection protein encoded; This protein prevents around it by wrapping like a blanket DNA damage.

In the future, researchers say, it could be used to protect human cells.

Videos courtesy of DD Horikawa, T Kunieda, University of Tokyo

Video produced by Victoria Gill

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9.18.2016

Solar tuk-tuk full tour India UK

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Naveen Rabelli engineer has completed a journey of 6,000 miles from India to Britain in a solar tuk-tuk.

9.17.2016

As Indonesia & # 039; rare birds are threatened with extinction

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A BBC team finds rare hawks Java for sale, but environmentalists say it needs to do more to combat illegal trade in birds in Indonesia.

9.15.2016

A new map of the Milky Way

The European Space Agency has released details about the position and brightness of more than a billion stars.

They were collected by the space telescope Gaia in the last three years.

The study will be used to ever create the most accurate map of our galaxy.

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intelligent Rabe course uses tools

Such rare bird that has been extinct in the wild, has reached an elite intelligent animal; Hawaiian Crow, of course, use tools to get the food.

The bird includes now only one other corvids - New Caledonia - Crow niche in this exclusive development.

Dr Christian Rutz St. Andrews of the University, described his realization that the bird can be a tool for the discovery of the user as a "teachable moment". He and his international team of colleagues have published their discovery in the journal Nature .

Images courtesy of Crow San Diego Zoo and World University St. Andrews

Video produced by Victoria Gill

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The turtle saved the species from extinction

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Diego Turtle, 100, has produced nearly 800 children in their native archipelago.

9.12.2016

As Star Trek inspired & # 039; two generations and # 039; scientist

Star Trek was a "relationship of inspiration" in the space program, said Robert Picardo, who played the doctor hologram in Star Trek Voyager.

The successful science fiction series celebrates 50 years since its original broadcast to an audience of American television.

In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live , Mr Picardo said that now there were two "generations" of people who "inspired" to enter the fields because of Star Trek - technology.

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