stretching 3.7 million square kilometres across the Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and the Central African Republic, the Congo Basin is home to a vast rainforest covering over one and half million square kilometres
Read Moreincredibly tolerant of air pollution and heavy metal contamination, this lichen can be used as a bioindicator to measure air quality
Read Morehousing everything from delicate fulgurite structures created by lightning strikes to an ultra-dense ball of silicon nitride which can dent concrete, the Institute of Making is home to some of the world's most wondrous substances
Read Morestretching up above the streets of San Francisco, the Sutro Tower acts as a climate sentinel, reaching high into the atmosphere to measure CO2 levels
Read Moretechniques and devices used to detect nuclear weapons are being deployed in the search for dark matter
Read Morelocated high in the deserts of Chile, the European Southern Observatory’s Atacama Large Milllimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) is made up of a series of interlinked antennas stretching across an ultra-arid plain 5000m above sea level
Read MoreGIF masterminds Reed + Rader's first solo show in the UK takes audiences to a psychedelic Cretaceous era
Read Morethe La Silla Observatory in Chile has detected an earth-sized planet in the star system next door, Alpha Centauri
Read Moresampling Emily Candela's edible crystals
Read Moreexploring Tristram Lansdowne's surreal geological worlds
Read Morethe National Radio Astronomy Observatory's facility in West Virginia: a series of telescopes nestled amid lush forests and hills
Read Moreafter a voyage of more than 62,000 nautical miles, the French environmental research vessel TARA will next week dock in London as part of an ongoing educational trip
Read Morethe Shield mantis is just one of millions of species found in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador – one of the most biodiverse places on earth thanks in part to the fact it never froze over during the last ice age.
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Read Morejoin our new Pop Up Astronomy Club to see one of the outer planets this week
Read Moreearly next Monday morning, 154 million miles from earth, a white and gold UFO-shaped spacecraft will hit the Martian atmosphere traveling at nearly 6km per second
Read Moregood news for native wildlife this week with the release of 34 frankly adorable dormice into the Warwickshire countryside
Read MoreTom Sachs’ latest work sees a team of "astronauts" simulating a mission to Mars using low-fi bricolaged components manufactured by the artist to take them to the surface and back
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Read Moreincrementally flowing down into valleys, lakes and oceans, the slow motion march of glaciers has etched the Earth's surface for eons – but today these remote white worlds are under threat
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