Endangered Archaeology: Project launched to map ancient sites in Middle East before they are destroyed
Oxford and Leicester University researchers to map sites with satellite and aerial photography
Rare footage shows Amur tiger family playing in China
Tiger family in China shows populations are finally returning following conservation effort
Penis reduction world first: Florida teen has surgery on phallus 'too large' for sex
Surgeons in US perform first penis reduction because it was too big to have sex or play sports.
Stephen Hawking: Survival of human race depends on colonising planets and end of aggression
Hawking says aggression threatens to destroy mankind but empathy would bring us together.
Oxytocin as autism treatment: There's definite cause for hope, but don't jump the gun
Expert says oxytocin is key to autism treatment but not in the ways currently used
Marine animals follow Cope's rule of evolving to bigger sizes over time
Study of 17,000 animals over 542 million years shows support for Cope's rule.
Finger length predicts how nice men are towards women
Men with shorter index fingers and long ring fingers get along better with women, study shows.
Male 'Ruby Seadragon' pregnant with dozens of babies identified as entirely new species
Scientists discover third species of seadragon off Australian coast
Mass extinctions, asteroid impacts and volcanic eruptions caused by dark matter, US scientist claims
New York professor says dark matter interactions could be responsible for mass extinctions.
Powerful HIV 'vaccine' blocks every strain of virus and offers lasting protection
Molecule that can control HIV without antiretroviral drugs discovered.
First new ichthyosaur species for 130 years discovered sitting in Doncaster Museum
Ichthyosaurus anningae lived in West Dorset during Lower Jurassic period.
Oregon chub delisted: Tiny fish is first species to be removed from endangered list
Oregon chub becomes first fish species in history to be delisted from Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Animals.
F1 racing cars of the future could be made from limpet teeth after strongest material discovery
Snail-like creatures' teeth could be used to make cars, boats and planes
Villa of Ben Hur's arch enemy identified through 2,000-year-old wine vats
Villa of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus identified on Tuscan island of Elba.
Earth had extremely close encounter with 'Scholz's star' 70,000 years ago
Star came within 0.8 light years of Earth passing through the Oort cloud, scientists say.
Why marijuana makes you hungry: Cannabis munchies mystery solved by Yale scientists
Marijuana munchies mystery: Yale School of Medicine researchers discover neurons involved with appetite suppression affected by cannabis
Curious case of a missing brown dwarf 163 light years away
Scientists unable to find brown dwarf that should be orbiting pair of stars V471 Tauri.
Islamic extremist planned to 'make Yellowstone supervolcano erupt' in US terror plot
Chiheb Esseghaier allegedly plotted to trigger catastrophic volcanic eruption.
Mutant fish with two mouths caught in Australian lake
Bony bream with two mouths caught by fisherman Garry Warrick in South Australia.
Quarter of Dutch doctors would provide assisted suicide to those 'tired of living'
One in five Netherlands doctors would consider euthanasia for someone with no medical problems.
Israel: Grape seeds for long-lost Byzantine 'Wine of the Negev' discovered in Halutza
Grape seeds from 1,500 years ago to help reveal why wine of the Negev was so renowned.
Alzheimer's breakthrough as molecule to stop 'toxic chain reaction' in brain discovered
'Chaperone' that inhibits key stage of Alzheimer's development identified.
Penguins lost ability to taste fish 20 million years ago in scientific mystery
Penguins lost three of the five basic vertebrate tastes over 20 million years ago.
Pathway that can reroute visual information has potential to prevent blindness
Part of brain responsible for vision can adapt to injury and trauma, scientists discover.
Ozone-destroying chemicals not controlled by Montreal Protocol 'increasing rapidly'
Chemicals not controlled by UN are now contributing to ozone depletion.
Cern Large Hadron Collider restart: Scientists hoping to find particle 'more exciting than Higgs'
Particle accelerator could detect supersymmetric matter by the end of summer.
Climate change, AI and supervolcanoes among top 12 threats to human civilisation
Oxford University scientists list biggest threats to human race.
Drones will scan Amazon rainforest in search of environmental impact by ancient civilisations
Scientists looking to understand Amazonia's past to create sustainable future.
Cuba: Extremely aggressive HIV strain that leads to Aids in 3 years discovered
New variant of HIV virus progressed so fast patients did not even realise they were infected.
Global warming: Western USA faces Megadrought 'worse than anything seen before'
Man-made global warming the primary driver in worst drought in over 1,000 years.
