published: 13:49 04-04-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth but now has a 3.8% chance of striking the Moon.
Science & Environment
Kidderminster
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Kyiv
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published: 19:00 02-04-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Alcohol increases the release of chemical sex signals and makes males more attractive to females.
published: 06:06 02-04-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Environment Agency review waste tyre exports after BBC probe reveals millions sent to furnaces in India.
published: 06:02 31-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Campaigners identified 140 illegal spill days into the beauty spot in 2024
published: 12:00 28-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Parts of the UK with clear skies will see the Moon take a "bite" out of the Sun on Saturday morning.
published: 15:26 25-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Duonychus is one of the few species of theropod dinosaur that evolved two-fingered hands.
published: 01:41 25-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Archaeologists say they have found more than 800 items dating back about 2,000 years.
published: 21:59 19-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
New research could force a fundamental rethink of the nature of space and time.
published: 09:03 18-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
A spokesperson for the South African government told the BBC there had been an assault at the station.
published: 00:03 17-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads.
published: 13:01 13-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
BBC investigation finds nine out of ten high-risk contaminated areas have not been tested.
published: 01:38 10-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is looking at how it can speed up the approval process for lab-grown foods.
published: 16:51 07-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The mission was supposed to last 10 days but less then a day after landing, the craft is running out of power.
published: 09:40 06-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Government-backed heat pump installations in the UK reached record levels for 2024.
published: 01:19 06-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
New part of the immune system - hidden inside our bodies - could be used to make new antibiotics.
published: 21:32 12-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
While at least two million litres of jet fuel are in the water, there is some positive news.
published: 13:16 04-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Experiments on mice could see hairy, genetically modified elephants living in the Arctic, a US company claims.
published: 00:14 19-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Dolphins circled their capsule after it landed off the coast of Florida.
published: 01:59 04-02-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Differences in seawater colour could reveal how tiny Antarctic creatures are faring in a warming world.
published: 02:27 17-01-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Officials at Elon Musk's company said the upper stage was lost, minutes after it launched.
published: 08:12 16-01-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company blasts its first rocket into orbit in a challenge to Elon Musk.
published: 01:46 31-12-2024
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
published: 16:00 11-11-2024
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought.
published: 03:18 04-04-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The climate prize ceremony will come just before Brazil hosts the COP30 climate summit in November.
published: 02:39 31-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Gothenburg has to pay a financial penalty if it misses certain annual sustainability goals.
published: 10:56 29-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Just Stop Oil says it will disband but does this mark an end to the chaos caused by its climate protests?
published: 02:26 21-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The government has announced the funding for 200 schools and hospitals apiece across the UK.
published: 06:06 21-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The government says the new Western Forest project will help the UK meet its tree-planting targets.
published: 23:25 19-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Greenpeace has warned it could be forced into bankruptcy because of the case brought by Energy Transfer.
published: 18:17 18-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The Tory leader says the target is impossible "without a serious drop in our living standards".
published: 14:30 19-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
And did they have enough underwear?
published: 06:07 18-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months.
published: 18:00 12-02-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London.
published: 05:41 05-02-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.
published: 16:07 29-01-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
published: 01:26 14-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The president once derided attempts to develop new green technology as a "green new scam" - but his deal could help boost the US's potential in the sector
published: 00:39 03-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
How a new atomic clock might be the way to tackle attacks on plane GPS systems
published: 00:04 02-02-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national treasure".
published: 02:08 15-01-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
The UK led the way in this field of science until recently - but now other countries have overtaken. So, how can that lead be recovered?
published: 09:05 11-01-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
With the risk factors increasing, is it still safe to live in areas prone to these disasters - and can fireproofing ever work?
published: 17:00 13-03-2025
updated: 17:00 04-04-2025
...and what happens to the body when you spend a year in space?