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The UK business Secretary Vince Cable has unveiled plans for a squeeze on public funding for scientific research.
Palaeontologists uncover a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feathers.
Scientists carry out the first rigorous analysis of dance moves that make men attractive to women.
A fungus that 'eats' cine film could cause irreversible damage important archive films which hold a record of British social history.
Domestic heat pumps need to be subject to tighter regulations in order for them to deliver widespread energy savings, a report suggests.
The EU agrees on new rules to reduce the number of animals used in lab experiments and tighten controls over such procedures.
A BP report says "a series of failures" by BP and its contractors were to blame for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Four animal rights activists admit waging a hate campaign against people linked to a Cambridgeshire animal testing laboratory.
High definition (HD) video is being used to assess how wave energy devices will affect the ecology of coastal areas.
A study suggests climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa, challenging widely held assumptions.
A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells.
Some of the UK's rarest bumblebees are at risk of becoming extinct as a result of inbreeding, research suggests.
Europe's gravity probe, Goce, is returned to health after being knocked offline because some onboard systems got too cold as the satellite circled the Earth.
Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.
Cockroach and locust brains are a rich source of antibiotics powerful enough to tackle MRSA, researchers say.
Physicists explain one of football's most spectacular free-kicks, showing that Roberto Carlos's 1997 "impossible goal" was not a fluke.
A group of Danish rocket enthusiasts trying to launch a dummy 30km into the sky abort the mission when a valve on their rocket freezes up.
Carbon-rich organic molecules, which serve as the building blocks of life, may be present on Mars after all, say scientists.
Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.
A massive expansion is to take place at Europe's largest onshore wind farm in East Renfrewshire.