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Last updated on September 2nd, 2010
| Technique to trace persistent CFCs: Click here |
| Ultrafine measurements of atmospheric gases could help scientists track down the last sources of CFCs thought to be slowing the recovery of the ozone hole. |
| Openness urged on UK's emissions: Click here |
| The government's chief environment scientist calls for more openness in admitting the UK's cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are an illusion. |
| 'Lights out' help migratory birds: Click here |
| A growing number of New York sky-scrapers switch off their lights at night to help reduce the number of migratory birds hitting the buildings. |
| Greatest free-kick 'was no fluke': Click here |
| Physicists explain one of football's most spectacular free-kicks, showing that Roberto Carlos's 1997 "impossible goal" was not a fluke. |
| Ants protect trees from elephants: Click here |
| A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it. |
| Worm brain clue to evolution: Click here |
| Researchers map the nervous system of worms to try and understand how the human cerebral cortex evolved. |
| Creation was Godless says Hawking: Click here |
| There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking concludes in a new book. |
| Ancient reef uncovered in Pacific: Click here |
| An ancient reef may provide scientists with clues about what will happen to coral when sea temperatures rise. |
| Floods swamp south Sudan region: Click here |
| Some 57,000 people have been forced from their homes because of dramatic floods in south-western Sudan over the past month, officials say. |
| Rare Roman lantern found in field: Click here |
| A metal detecting enthusiast finds what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain. |
| Clue to ancient Antarctic seaway: Click here |
| Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica. |
| Earl weakens as it nears US coast: Click here |
| Hurricane Earl weakens as it nears the US East Coast, though officials warn it remains "large and powerful". |
| Old star wallows in 'steam bath': Click here |
| Europe's Herschel space telescope spies an aging star that has surrounded itself in hot water vapour. |
| Memristor revolution backed by HP: Click here |
| A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time. |
| Big rocket booster in second test: Click here |
| A further test ignition takes place on the giant booster intended to power Nasa's next big rocket. |
| Stone Age funeral feast unearthed: Click here |
| The remains of a huge 12,000 year old feast have been found in a cave in Northern Israel. |
| Killer space blast 'off the hook': Click here |
| The theory that the great beasts living in North America 13,000 years ago were killed off by a space impact can now be discounted, a new study claims. |
| Beefy dino sported fearsome claws: Click here |
| Fossils of a new type of dinosaur, which looks like a beefy version of the predatory Velociraptor, have been unearthed in Romania. |
| Facial cancer hits Tasmanian devil Cedric: Click here |
| A Tasmanian Devil who experts hoped was immune to a facial cancer that threatens the marsupial species is euthanised after developing tumours. |
| Double space impact 'killed dinosaurs': Click here |
| The dinosaurs were wiped out by at least two space impacts rather than a single strike, say scientists. |
| Earthquake recorded in North Sea: Click here |
| An earthquake is recorded in the North Sea about 155 miles east of Aberdeen. |
| Stricter checks for climate body: Click here |
| The UN's climate science body needs stricter checks to prevent damage to its credibility, an independent review concludes. |
| UK biofuels 'fail on green goals': Click here |
| The vast majority of biofuels sold on UK forecourts are imported and do not conform to environmental standards, figures show. |
| Wheat genome boost to food supply: Click here |
| The draft sequences of the wheat genome released by UK scientists may prove to be a vital contribution to the efforts of securing global food supply. |
| Plants send SOS signal to insects: Click here |
| Plants are able to summon insects to their aid to avoid being eaten by caterpillars, scientists discover. |
| Brazil green light for Amazon dam: Click here |
| Brazil's government approves the controversial construction on a tributary of the Amazon of the world's third biggest hydroelectric dam. |
| Gorillas 'play tag like humans': Click here |
| Great apes play tag in similar way to humans, an international team of scientists finds. |
| Did the Universe need a creator?: Click here |
| There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, the physicist and mathematician Professor Stephen Hawking has said. |
| Rare tree flowers after 23 years: Click here |
| A rare Chinese tree has flowered for the first time in 23 years at Kew's country estate in West Sussex. |
| Nasa booster rocket passes test: Click here |
| One of the giant booster rockets intended to power the first stage of flight on Nasa's next rocket has been tested in the US. |
| GM potatoes beating killer blight: Click here |
| Researchers working on trials of genetically modified crops in Norfolk have grown potatoes which resist disease. |
| Free kick study boost for footballers: Click here |
| Dr Andy Harland of Loughborough University analyses what new free-kick trajectory findings mean for footballers. |
| Making money from Peruvian bird poo: Click here |
| An island off Peru is making money from selling bird poo to use as organic fertiliser. |
| Video reveals Titanic's condition: Click here |
| New pictures have emerged of the shipwreck of the Titanic, almost 25 years since it was first discovered. |
| Fishermen welcome new sole quota: Click here |
| Fishermen from Suffolk and Essex have welcomed a new quota agreement which allows smaller boats to start catching sole again. |
| Let it snow: Click here |
| Rare collision of two weather events caused freak snow storms in Winter 2009-2010, experts say |
| Once bitten: Click here |
| Why bed-bugs are on the march again |
| Darwin's secret: Click here |
| Darwin's artificial rainforest in the South Atlantic |
| How flat is flat?: Click here |
| Surveying the world's first 1,000mph race track |