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Total lunar eclipse bathes moon in red glow
Technology9 November 2022

Total lunar eclipse bathes moon in red glow

Getty ImagesThe Moon was bathed in red on Tuesday during a total lunar eclipse visible from North America to the Pacific but not in Europe.The eclipse's totality, where the Moon is entirely in Earth's shadow - lasted between 10:17 and 11:42 GMT. It w...

Lab-grown brain cells play video game Pong
Technology13 October 2022

Lab-grown brain cells play video game Pong

Researchers have grown brain cells in a lab that have learned to play the 1970s tennis-like video game, Pong. They say their "mini-brain" can sense and respond to its environment. Writing in the journal Neuron, Dr Brett Kagan, of the company Cortical...

Apple boom: Why community orchards are on the rise
Technology11 October 2022

Apple boom: Why community orchards are on the rise

By Helen Briggs Environment correspondent Traditional orchards are vanishing from the landscape, with an area the size of the Isle of Wight lost in a century. But community orchards are booming, thanks in part to renewed interest in living off the la...

Fishing nets being recycled to help save the sea
Technology10 October 2022

Fishing nets being recycled to help save the sea

For years the question of what to do with old fishing nets was a real headache. Fishermen sometimes dumped them at sea, or they were brought to shore and discarded in landfill. Now thanks to a scheme organised by Keep Britain Tidy, old fishing nets a...

Wildlife abandons 'Europe's Amazon' nature reserve
Technology9 October 2022

Wildlife abandons 'Europe's Amazon' nature reserve

BBC/Frank GardnerBy Frank GardnerBBC security correspondent, northern UkraineThe human and material cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is well documented. But rare species of animals and flowers that had flourished in the country's north have also ...

Wildlife deserts nature reserve known as Europe's Amazon
Technology9 October 2022

Wildlife deserts nature reserve known as Europe's Amazon

BBC/Frank GardnerBy Frank GardnerBBC security correspondentThe human and material cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is well documented. But rare species of animals and flowers that had flourished in the country's north have also been badly hit by ...

UK wardrobes stuffed with unworn clothes, study shows
Technology7 October 2022

UK wardrobes stuffed with unworn clothes, study shows

Thomas BarwickA quarter of the clothes in our wardrobes haven't been worn in a year, even though we're getting better at keeping them for longer, a study finds.A survey by environmental group WRAP estimates that the UK's wardrobes hold 1.6 billion un...

Scottish fossil revealed to be pterodactyl ancestor
Technology6 October 2022

Scottish fossil revealed to be pterodactyl ancestor

Northern Rogue StudiosBy Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsThe evolutionary secrets of a 230-million-year-old fossil reptile have been revealed, after a century of it being "locked inside a block of stone". Researchers used powerful X-ray s...

Sleeping in barns - homeless in the countryside
Technology1 October 2022

Sleeping in barns - homeless in the countryside

BBC/Claire Marshall Steve Phillips' place has bare walls, no TV, and a single small sofa. But at least now he has a roof and a bed - and his name on a tenancy agreement. Aged 45, this is the first place he can call home. Steve says that after sufferi...

Eurasian Beaver now legally protected in England
Technology1 October 2022

Eurasian Beaver now legally protected in England

Mike SymesEurasian beavers have been recognised as a European protected species in England, making it illegal to capture, kill, injure or disturb them.The move limits measures previously available to "control" beavers. Landowners will not be able to ...

Revealed: Huge gas flaring emissions never reported
Technology29 September 2022

Revealed: Huge gas flaring emissions never reported

Hussein Faleh/BBCMajor oil companies are not declaring a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, a BBC News investigation has revealed.The BBC found millions of tonnes of undeclared emissions from gas flaring at oil fields where BP, Eni, Exxo...

Big oil's toxic emissions from flaring undeclared
Technology29 September 2022

Big oil's toxic emissions from flaring undeclared

Hussein Faleh/BBC NewsMajor oil companies are not declaring a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, a BBC News investigation has revealed.The BBC found millions of tonnes of undeclared emissions from gas flaring at oil fields where BP, Eni,...

Dogs can sniff out stress on owner's breath
Technology29 September 2022

Dogs can sniff out stress on owner's breath

Queen's University, BelfastOur canine companions have proven once again how finely tuned they are to our feelings - this time in scientific sniffing test. Scientists discovered that dogs can smell stress in our breath and sweat. Four dogs - pets volu...

Study contradicts Rees-Mogg over hydrogen for heating
Technology28 September 2022

Study contradicts Rees-Mogg over hydrogen for heating

ReutersA new study has cast doubt on government claims that hydrogen could be used to heat homes and so cut greenhouse gas emissions.The report, published in the journal Joule, analysed more than 30 studies that looked at hydrogen and heating.All tho...

More than half of the world's palm trees in danger
Technology27 September 2022

More than half of the world's palm trees in danger

RBG KewMore than a thousand species of palm tree are at risk of extinction, according to a study.Scientists used artificial intelligence to assess risks to the entire palm family, from tall trees to climbing plants.The data gives a much better idea o...

Hurricane Ian forces Nasa to shelter Artemis Moon rocket
Technology26 September 2022

Hurricane Ian forces Nasa to shelter Artemis Moon rocket

NASAThe American space agency is to pull its Artemis-I Moon rocket off the launch pad in Florida because of an approaching hurricane.Nasa says the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle will be rolled back into its engineering workshop to protect it.Hurri...