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The Food Standards Agency has told Channel 4 News that UK horse meat contaminated with a toxic drug was consumed in France before it could be recalled.
Neil Ibata has helped produce a computer simulation which could revolutionise how we think about galaxy formation, and his work is featured on the cover of Nature. Not bad for a 15-year-old.
The Met Office has confirmed that 2012 was the second wettest year in the UK, in records that stretch back to 1910.
Measles cases have surged in Pakistan over the last year as suspicion over vaccinations and attacks on aid workers are leading to the deaths of hundreds of children.
As the year draws to a close (but hopefully not the world, unless the Mayans were right all along) we want to know what 2012 has done for you, from Gangnam Style to changing attitudes to disability.
Passengers collapsing, restaurants shut down and toilets smelling of vomit: 378 people on the luxury cruise ship Oriana are struck by norovirus, as reports of the bug rise by 72 per cent this season.
Braving temperatures of minus 40 degrees, a small team of British researchers today starts drilling through three kilometres of the Antarctic in search of life-forms new to science.
The planet’s polar ice sheets are melting three times faster than they were in the the 1990s, a 20-year study of satellite records says.
This world’s leading prize for popular science writing has this year been awarded James Gleick for The Information, a book which explores the history, meaning and implications of what humans know.
The government publishes details of its long-awaited energy bill which will not include a target to slash emissions from the power sector by 2030.
Confirmed cases of the deadly tree disease ash dieback are now so widespread that controlling the illness without a cure will pose “long term problems”, the environment secretary warns.
Britain’s UFO watchers will debate the future of research into extra-terrestrial activity as alien sightings take a downward spiral.
As New York struggles to recover from the wrath of Superstorm Sandy, what part does mankind play on climate change – is it our fault?
Britain is to ban imports of ash in an attempt to prevent 80m ash trees being lost to a new and rare fungal disease that has already caused devastation in Europe.
The planet could be facing a catastrophic 5 degree temperature rise, and we are losing time to address the threat of climate change, one of the government’s leading scientists tells Channel 4 News.