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Crop sprays that turn off pest genes without altering the plant's genome could be the first in a new generation of pesticides that circumvent GM regulations

Some planets orbit their stars right around the star's equator, while others go at wonky angles – and it's all down to the star's size

Central Asia's glaciers, which supply water to one of the planet's largest irrigated areas, are melting fast, highlighting a worrying global trend in ice loss

Five scientific and technology breakthroughs that needed both luck and inspiration

Two of the four NASA space shuttles on display in US museums have had their water storage tanks removed to help form part of a storage system for the ISS

GPs in the UK are being told to push back against people who demand antibiotics, in a move to cut prescriptions by a quarter

Islamic climate call Islamic leaders from 20 countries are calling for the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims to act on climate change, and for governments to phase out fossil fuels by 2050. The declaration was adopted at the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium this week and presents a moral case for fighting climate change based on […]

Historical data on how plants move over the course of the day seems to show that they line up with the position of the moon

Satellites that are manufactured and assembled in orbit could let you launch your own armchair science project or just experience the effect of seeing Earth from above

A whistled form of Turkish used to communicate across mountain valleys shows that it's not just the left side of the brain that processes language