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If all goes well, the Chang’e 6 probe will be the first ever to land on the far side of the moon to take samples and bring ...

The global bumblebee population has declined since the 1950s, sparking speculation on the causes – researchers have suggested ...

The air and dust in climbing centres contain high levels of rubber particles from the soles of climbing shoes, some of which ...

A male Sumatran orangutan chewed the leaves of a plant used in Indonesian traditional medicine and placed them on a wound on ...

Migrating flies can carry pollen hundreds or thousands of kilometres, and this could help plants adapt to climate change ...

An analysis of the 2021 German federal elections has found that for every 200,000 times a politician's social media adverts ...

Finnair has cancelled flights to Tartu in Estonia this month because of an ongoing GPS jamming attack – and there is evidence ...

My colleagues call me a supervillain for trying to destroy the cosmos, but this kind of imaginative thinking isn't so far ...

By ignoring declining air pollution, regional climate models have greatly underestimated how hot Europe's summers and ...

FEW insects (or even animals) hold quite as much sway on the planet as bees. As pollinators that flock from flower to flower, ...