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Sea eagles could be reintroduced

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Conservationists plan to bring the sea eagle, the UK's largest bird of prey, back to the skies above England.
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Nothing lost in space - this time

BBC Science News  12 hours ago

Astronauts have completed further repairs at the International Space Station without mishap.
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Hairspray linked to birth defect

BBC Science News  12 hours ago

Boys born to women exposed to hairspray in the workplace may have a higher risk of being born with a genital defect.
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'Superglue' brain op for toddler

BBC Science News  12 hours ago

The parents of a 17-month-old girl have told how surgeons used glue to seal tiny brain blood vessels that were threatening her life.
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Polish tests 'confirm Copernicus'

BBC Science News  13 hours ago

Polish researchers say they have solved an ancient mystery and identified the remains of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
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First test for interplanetary net

BBC Science News  15 hours ago

Nasa has successfully tested a communications system designed to work in deep space modelled on the internet
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'Grape' is key to fossil puzzle

BBC Science News  16 hours ago

The forerunners of giant single-celled organisms living on the ocean floor may have left fossil tracks often attributed to more complex creatures, say marine biologists.
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First otter reaches Farne Islands

BBC Science News  24 hours ago

An otter has survived a "perilous" three-mile sea crossing to the Farne Islands for the first time, the National Trust says.
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Beavers arrive for spring release

BBC Science News  less than a day ago

Four Norwegian beaver families arrive in the UK as part of an historic plan to reintroduce the mammals to Scotland.
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Slow progress on ocean protection

BBC Science News  less than a day ago

Two year after pledging to protect 10% of the oceans, governments have protected less than 1%, a survey finds.
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Bush 'seeks to ease wildlife law'

BBC Science News  less than a day ago

US environmentalists accuse President Bush of trying to rush through changes to the Endangered Species Act.
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Sparrow numbers 'plummet by 68%'

BBC Science News  2 days ago

The loss of green spaces in Britain has caused the number of house sparrows to drop sharply in the past 30 years.
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Mammoth's genome pieced together

BBC Science News  2 days ago

A US-Russian team announces that it has sequenced most of the genome of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia.
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Final plea on Earth observation

BBC Science News  2 days ago

Leading Earth observation scientists urge Gordon Brown to back Europe's environmental monitoring project, GMES.
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EU agrees cod stocks rescue plans

BBC Science News  3 days ago

European fisheries ministers agree a plan aimed at increasing dwindling cod stocks, including better nets and new quotas.
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Ancient turtle discovered on Skye

BBC Science News  3 days ago

The earliest turtles to live in water have been discovered on - and named after - the Scottish island of Skye.
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Rare penguin took over from rival

BBC Science News  3 days ago

Human arrival in New Zealand led to the extinction of one penguin species to the advantage of another, scientists suggest.
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Windpipe transplant breakthrough

BBC Science News  3 days ago

Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells.
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Big cat fossil found in North Sea

BBC Science News  3 days ago

A fossilised bone from a sabre-toothed cat has been dredged up from the seabed by a trawler off the UK coast.
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Europe space plans face 'crunch'

BBC Science News  3 days ago

The European Space Agency must balance ambition against limited funds as it plans for the next three years.
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