Sweet conspiracy: 'Sugar papers' reveal confectionery sway over US government 50 years ago
Sugar industry worked with NIH to find ways around tooth decay not involving sugar reduction.
Nine newly discovered dwarf satellites to solve dark matter mysteries
Dwarf satellites discovered orbiting the Milky Way could shed light on dark matter.
Composer creates music just for cats and they love it - listen here
Cats like music that is 'species appropriate', scientists discover.
Russia: World first as Amur tiger family including tiger dad caught on camera
Camera traps show mother, father and three tiger cubs in Russian forest.
Can you remember what the Apple logo looks like? Take the test to see
Most people cannot accurately remember what the Apple logo looks like, study finds.
False memories implanted into sleeping mice to create happy place
Memory implant study has potential to lead to trauma victim treatment in future.
600 million-year-old sponge-like fossil sheds light on life before the Cambrian explosion
Sponge-like fossil predates Cambrian period by 60 million years.
Mystery of African slave skeletons discovered on Caribbean island solved after 300 years
DNA testing reveals lives of three slaves whose bodies were discovered on Saint Martin.
How to stop your child becoming a narcissist: Don't tell them they're special
Parents who think their child is 'God's gift' risk creating little narcissists.
Mona Lisa search: Test results on 'muse' Lisa Gherardini bones to be announced
Carbon-14 results on bones potentially belonging to Mona Lisa to be revealed.
Mummified mountaineers emerge from ice on Mexican volcano after 50 years
Mummified remains discovered on Pico de Orizaba volcano in Puebla.
Ceres Live Stream: Watch Nasa's Dawn arriving at dwarf planet broadcast online
Livestream from Slooh observatory to show Dawn spacecraft arrive at dwarf planet Ceres.
Great white sharks use glare of the sun to hunt down prey [Video]
Researchers find sharks are the only non-human animal to use the sun's position to prey.
World's first baby woolly rhino pulled from the Siberian ice
Sasha is the world's first woolly rhino calf ever to be found.
Russia: Full-size Soviet tank model created from 20 tonnes of snow [Photos]
Russian student Alexander Zhuikov recreates soviet tank for World of Tanks competition.
Mediterranean on Mars: Ocean covered 20% of Red Planet surface long enough for life to thrive
New maps show how Mars's water reservoirs might have looked billions of years ago.
Amazing video shows praying mantis jump in slow motion
Praying mantises rotate faster than a blink of the eye, yet they always land on target.
Enormous exoplanet with quadruple star system discovered 136 light years away
30 Ari is one of only two planets found in quadruple star systems.
Pee-power: Urinals that generate electricity by eating pee 'to make refugee camps safer for women'
Oxfam backs plan to introduce pee-powered toilets to refugee camps.
Greece: Ancient town and burial site discovered outside entrance to Hades' Alepotrypa Cave
Site where Neolithic spooning couple found reveals evidence of 6,200-year-old settlement.
Dawn of humanity: Earliest Homo fossil ever pushes back human evolution 400,000 years
Homo jawbone from 2.75 million years ago suggests humans evolved thanks to climate change.
Genius of Darwin, Kafka and Chekov 'arose from inability to filter out distractions'
Study suggest creative genius related to reduced ability to filter irrelevant sensory information.
Ancient Egyptian tomb of temple guard Amenhotep discovered in Luxor [Photos]
Tomb dating back 3,000 years is the temple guard of Egyptian deity Amun.
Australia: 700 starving koalas killed in secret cull
Australian authorities confirm hundreds of koalas were killed because they were not able to find food.
Belief in supernatural punishment not 'big gods' gave rise to complex societies
Study of 100 Pacific culture shows 'big gods' did not play a casual role in evolution of societies.
London: Natural History Museum researchers reveal Sophie the Stegosaurus weighed 1,560kg
Scientists estimate the body mass of Sophie the Stegosaurus by combining techniques.
World's deadliest volcanoes revealed in United Nations report
Scientists look at risk of volcanic activity on global scale for the first time.
Vanuatu: Amazing helicopter drone footage shows what it's like inside an active volcano [Video]
Explorer attaches cameras to drones to film inside Marum Crater.
Long lost 'City of the Monkey God' discovered in Honduras
Mysterious culture's lost city discovered in remote part of Honduras jungle.
Penis length study shows 'normal' erect length is 5in
Scientists measure over 15,000 men to find out what is normal for penis length.
