Seal 'tweets' provide ocean data from Polar Regions on climate change
Tweeting seals relay compressed information to scientists for international database.
Cern Large Hadron Collider: 'Stable beams' declared as collider begins three year non-stop run
The Large Hadron Collider has started delivering data for the first time in 27 months.
Stephen Hawking: 'I would consider assisted suicide'
Stephen Hawking says keeping someone alive against their wishes is the "ultimate indignity".
Jaws 40th Anniversary: 40 facts about Spielberg's infamous shark movie and Great Whites
Jaws was released on 1 June 1975 and led to generation of people too scared to go in the water.
Radioactive 'bullets' halts and cure cancer, scientists announce
Cancer bullets could cure people with no other options, study shows.
Robot cheetah trained to jump hurdles as it runs at 5mph [Video]
MIT scientists create world's first four-legged robot that can run and jump over obstacles.
Solid gold Scythian bongs for cannabis and opium discovered in Russia
Two gold bongs dating to 2,400 years gives insight into the Scythian nomads.
Amelia Earhart disappearance 'solved': Plane went missing on Marshall Islands, teacher claims
High school teacher Dick Spink says Earhart went down on Mili Atoll in Marshall Islands.
China unveils world's first facial recognition ATM machine
ATM will not allow users to withdraw cash unless facial features match with identification.
Massive tsunami could strike Los Angeles and San Diego from major offshore faults
Study finds several major faults off the coast of Southern California that can produce earthquakes and tsunamis.
Graphene could one day create fuel-free spacecrafts
Miracle material can turn light into movement, scientists discover.
Missing link fossil shows sharks are far more evolved than previously thought
The discovery of an earlier and bonier form of fish shows sharks are less primitive than thought.
This is why you drink dinosaur pee every day
Science channel Curious Minds explains why every water molecule was once dinosaur urine.
Australia: 'Suicide sex' marsupials face extinction
Two new species of antechinus discovered that have sex until they die.
Optogenetics: Lost memories restored in mice with amnesia through blue light
Scientists reactivate lost memories through technology called optogenetics.
Hunga Tonga castaway: Amazing photos of God's Fire - Earth's newest volcanic island
British explorer Ian Argus Stuart tells IBTimes UK of his 11 nights alone on the world's newest land mass.
Astromice: ISS mice have thinner skin after three months in space
Prolonged time in space led to skin thinning in three mice on International Space Station.
Auroras on Mars: Humans on Red Planet would see beautiful deep blue glow from planet surface
Mars' upper atmosphere more similar to Earth's than previously thought, scientists say.
Italy: Boy survived 42 minutes underwater was given one in a million chance of living
Teenager who survived being trapped in a canal for 42 minutes dubbed a miracle by doctors.
Spain: World's first murder victim was stabbed in the head 430,000 years ago
Neanderthal skull shows signs of being murdered and dumped in Sima de los Huesos underground cave.
Australopithecus deyiremeda: New hominin species discovered lived alongside Lucy
New species of hominin lived between 3.3 and 3.5 million years ago.
San Andreas: Seismologists applaud Hollywood blockbuster despite dubious science
Not all of the science in Dwayne Johnson's earthquake disaster flick is completely wrong.
Everest glaciers 'will disappear by 2100' if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise
Glaciers on Mount Everest will experience sustained ice loss over next 85 years.
World without the Montreal Protocol: Ozone hole would have grown by 40% by 2013
Study shows how surface UV would have increased as much as 14% if CFCs had not been banned.
Two volcanic islands emerge in Red Sea 'that will last for centuries'
Volcanic islands in Zubair archipelago show region is more volcanically active than previously thought.
Tinder and Grindr driving surge in syphilis, gonorrhoea and HIV
Casual and anonymous sex arranged on social media leads to spike in syphilis, gonorrhoea and HIV.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: US vs China militarised space race would spur innovation
Astrophysicist says competition would be good way of boosting space travel.
Climate change: Ragweed pollen to invade Europe making hayfever allergies much worse
Airborne ragweed pollen will by four times higher by 2050, study finds.
Tornado tears through Mexican city of Ciudad Acuña killing at least 10
Category 4 twister destroyed homes and upended cars, and kills at least two children.
Isis Syria crisis: Sunni Muslim body calls saving Palmyra archaeology 'battle of all humanity'
Al-Azhar says mankind must unite to stop Isis from destroying ancient archaeological site.
