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Fantastic beasts and how to name them
June 26, 2017, 10:04 a.m.
The first Harry Potter book was published 20 years ago. We mark the occasion by looking at the animals named after its characters.
Mystery of the huge whales
June 8, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
Scientists may have cracked the answer to the question of why whales are so big.
Vanishing glaciers
May 25, 2017, 3:33 p.m.
Glacier National Park in Montana, USA, is losing its glaciers – they’re melting quickly and might all be gone by 2080.
Cassini’s final mission
May 12, 2017, 10:28 a.m.
NASA spacecraft Cassini comes to the end of its 20-year mission to study the planet Saturn.
From seawater to drinking water
April 28, 2017, 12:18 p.m.
Scientists have discovered a way of making seawater drinkable using an unimaginably fine sieve!
Could shrimp shells replace plastic bags?
March 22, 2017, 11:57 a.m.
Plastic is polluting the planet – but researchers are working on an environmentally friendly alternative made with shrimp shells.
Scientists announce Zealandia, the eighth continent
March 10, 2017, 11:09 a.m.
Scientists have proposed that there is an eighth continent, and 94% of it is hidden under the sea!
14-year-old invents anti-landmine drone
Feb. 23, 2017, 1:40 p.m.
An unmanned aircraft has been developed in India with the ability to find and destroy landmines – and the mastermind behind this amazing invention is just 14 years old!
Asteroid flies close to Earth
Jan. 23, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
An asteroid the size of a multi-storey building zoomed by Earth last week, just two days after it was first discovered.
UN vs. Superbugs
Sept. 30, 2016, 3:09 p.m.
World leaders have assembled at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss a growing threat to public health: superbugs.