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12,330 articles from BBC Science/Nature

• FRIDAY 10. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 17:15 Vega rocket set for maiden voyage

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  After more than 10 years of development work, Europe's new small satellite launcher is ready for its first flight.  

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• 15:41 Overfishing 'costing EU £2.7bn'

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  Overfishing of EU fisheries is costing the European economy £2.7bn a year and 100,000 jobs, a report by a UK think-tank finds.  

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• 09:55 Does outdoor play help keep the doctor away?

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  Does outdoor play help keep the doctor away?  

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• 09:32 Brown bear cubs released in wild

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  Orphaned bear cubs released in Greece  

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• THURSDAY 9. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 23:10 VIDEO: Flute or coupe? Scientists decide

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  French researchers from the University of Rein have discovered that the shape of the glass may affect our experience of drinking champagne.  

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• 22:34 VIDEO: Northern Lights captured from space

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  The first 'moving' images of the Northern lights, or Aurora Borealis, as seen from Space have been released by NASA, after they harnessed a new time-lapse photographic technique.  

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• 20:05 Laser radar spots quake changes

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  An earthquake fault zone in Mexico is imaged with unprecedented precision, thanks to improvements in Light Detection and Ranging - laser radar.  

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• 15:37 Black hole 'vaporising asteroids'

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  For years scientists have been trying to explain the reason why a giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has bright flares coming out from its centre.  

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• 05:59 Why zebras evolved their stripes

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  A zebra's unmistakeable stripes may have evolved to make the animals unattractive to blood-sucking flies, say scientists.  

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• 05:57 VIDEO: Russia finds vast sub-glacial lake

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  Russian scientists have been drilling for two decades in the Antarctic and say they have found a vast sub-glacial lake.  

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• 05:04 VIDEO: Tribes untouched by civilisation

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  Saving the mysterious Amazon tribes untouched by modern world  

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• WEDNESDAY 8. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 20:09 Threshold broken for tiny lasers

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  Researchers build efficient lasers just 100 billionths of a metre across that may be used to make faster computer chips in the future.  

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• 19:30 VIDEO: Nepal national park breeds crocs

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  A breeding centre in Nepal's Chitwan National Park is preparing endangered Gharial crocodiles for release back into the wild.  

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• 19:06 America and Asia 'will join up'

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  Researchers say most of the world's continents will merge somewhere over the Pacific 'ring of fire' in 50-200 million years  

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• 18:39 VIDEO: 'I carried Mars rock in hand luggage'

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  The Natural History Museum in London has acquired its largest Martian meteorite, which could hold new clues to life on Mars.  

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• 14:20 Rare Mars meteorite for science

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  A Martian meteorite, an incredibly rare object, is given to the Natural History Museum, London, to help unravel the secrets of the Red Planet.  

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• 14:18 7 questions on skydiving and parachuting

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  Test yourself on the history of aerial adventure  

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• 12:40 Star nursery in sharpest picture

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  The most detailed infrared image ever of the Carina Nebula  

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• 11:25 VIDEO: Converting solar energy into new fuels

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  Researchers in Glasgow are working on a way to remove greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and put oil back under the North Sea.  

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• 08:57 Parkinson's cells 'made in lab'

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  Scientists in the US have successfully made human brain cells in the lab that are an exact replica of genetically caused Parkinson's disease.  

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• 04:38 Corals inflate to escape the sand

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  Time-lapse footage reveals how mushroom corals inflate and deflate to free themselves from smothering sand.  

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• 04:28 Whales 'stressed by ocean noise'

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  A study of hormones in whale faeces shows that right whales are stressed by propeller noise from shipping.  

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• 01:46 Ape versus machine

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  The primate who solves a memory test faster than you can blink  

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• 01:43 Satellites spy on Europe’s farms

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  How drones and satellites are catching farming cheats  

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• TUESDAY 7. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 18:42 VIDEO: Skydiver: My mum's still scared

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  An Austrian adventurer planning the highest skydive in history has announced he will make the attempt later this year.  

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