Trappist-1 Nasa announcement: We could find alien life within 10 years on newly discovered planets
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Iconic scimitar-horned oryx reintroduced to the Sahel 10 years after going extinct in the wild
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Exoplanets: How many potentially habitable planets are there in the Milky Way?
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Wind power on steroids: Typhoon turbines to provide the ultimate clean energy to Japan by 2020
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Prehistoric Californian hunter-gatherer societies were plagued with lethal violence
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UK scientists could soon fly into space and conduct medical experiments in zero gravity
Newly unveiled laws could see UK constructing its first spaceport by 2020, enabling satellite launches.
Nasa has found something big and people think it is a planet that could support life
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Cameroon ivory poachers are emptying Gabon's key nature reserve of elephants
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Atmospheric rivers snake through the most dangerous and extreme storms
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Australia targets monster feral cats hunting native species to extinction
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Mysterious Tully Monster was a weird creature but not a fish
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Man dies taking selfie as Iranian dam bursts amid freak storms
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Watch Fukushima radiation levels kill second Tepco robot in less than a month
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Underwater volcanoes, surfing dolphins and 'Hoff' crabs - what Attenborough's Blue Planet 2 has in store
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Do human-pig hybrids make you feel uncomfortable? Moral superiority may be to blame
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Giant basking sharks swim south for the winter
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Nasa scientist wants the Moon to become a planet by changing a definition
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Sadiq Khan urges government support on air pollution after announcing £10 'T-Charge'
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RSPCA chief recalls 'sea of yellow' as 1,000 chicks dumped in Lincolnshire field
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Anatomists make an e-fit of a 1,400 year-old Scottish murder victim
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Nasa revives ancient life forms found in Mexico's Naica mines
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'Bombogenesis' freak weather storm kills two in California
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Zealandia: All you need to know about the long lost continent
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How to watch SpaceX's historic Nasa cargo launch to ISS from Kennedy Space Center
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Millions are going hungry in southern Africa as armyworms and drought threaten crops
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