Sea turtles use Earth's magnetic field to navigate home across thousands of miles
Sea turtles appear to have inbuilt compass that directs them to beach where they were born.
New Horizon's begins six-month flyby of Pluto in historic space mission
Nasa's New Horizons will begin studying Pluto before closest approach in July.
Borneo: Clever pitcher plants turn off traps to catch more ants
Scientists find intelligent method of capturing more prey by tricking visitor insects.
Nasa astronauts back in US sector of ISS after ammonia leak false alarm
Hatch opened to US segment while wearing protective masks but no traces of ammonia found.
Meteors not the building blocks of planets but the by-products of violent collisions
MIT scientists say meteors played less of a role in planetary formation than once believed.
Global sea level 'rising faster than previously believed'
Acceleration of global sea level "significantly larger" than scientists predicted.
More evidence against badger cull: Testing for bovine TB 'more effective measure'
Queen Mary study shows testing for bovine tuberculosis is more effective than badger cull.
Real life 'batwoman' Fiona Gameson uses her superhuman hearing power to see the world
Blind woman Fiona Gameson says she calls her ability to see with echoes her 'bat sense'.
ISS: Nasa says 'no ammonia leak confirmed' on board space station as crew follow 'safety procedures'
Nasa confirms all crew are safe after suspected toxic leak on ISS.
Iceland: Holuhraun lava field biggest in 200 years, Nasa satellite images show
Lava has been gushing from fissures north of Iceland's largest glacier for five months.
ISS: US astronauts evacuated after toxic ammonia leak and take refuge in Russian sector
BREAKING: Astronauts on board International Space Station 'safe' after being evacuated.
Cancer deaths in under-80s 'to be eliminated within 35 years'
'Realistic' to expect no one under the age of 80 to die from cancer by 2050, report suggests.
How the zebra really got his stripes: To stay cool in savannah heat
Study looks at adaptive significance of zebras and tests the theories about them.
Men want committed relationships 'when women are scarce'
Study of Makushi people shows how men want relationships based on 'supply and demand'.
World's oldest butchering tools 'led to human language and teaching'
Slaughtering tools from 2.5 million years ago aided evolution of human communication.
Beagle 2: UK Space Agency expected to announce recovery of long-lost Mars probe
UK Space Agency announces mystery conference about Beagle 2 Mars probe.
Dogs rolling over 'is sign of aggression not submission'
Dogs rolling over during play is a combat manoeuvre used before launching an attack.
Lion's mane jellyfish and giant octopus: How big sea monsters really are
Human bias towards larger animals has misconstrued true size of many sea beasts.
Climate change: Social cost of carbon six times higher than current estimates
Stanford scientists say cost per ton of C02 emissions is $220.
Janusiscus: 415 million-year-old two-faced fish shows humans are less evolved than sharks
Age of Fishes fossil shows creature that had traits of both bony fish and sharks.
Gibbons talk to one another 'in same language used by human ancestors'
White-handed gibbon study shows newly-discovered form of language.
Climate change: Global warming hiatus explained by atmosphere-cooling volcanic eruptions
Stabilisation of warming over last 15 years explained by atmosphere-cooling eruptions.
Koala mitten appeal gets huge response after Australia bushfires burn their paws
Donations have been flooding in following appeal for koala mittens following fires.
'Monster galactic mashup' as two galaxies with supermassive black holes collide
Nasa's NuStar telescope spots two colliding galaxies 134 light years away.
Half male and half female butterfly discovered in Pennsylvania
Butterfly that is exactly half male/half female will go on display from 17 January.
Madagascar: Enormous underwater lemur graveyard discovered dating back 1,000 years
'Enormous' submerged graveyard potentially biggest animal bone yard ever discovered.
VIDEO: Meteoroid fireball turns night to day in Romania
Romania Space Agency confirms meteoroid lit up night sky.
'Atlantis gold' discovered in 2,600-year-old shipwreck off Sicily
Experts believe the ship was headed to Gela from Greece when it got caught in a storm and sunk
Monkeys recognise themselves in mirrors for first time and decide to look at genitals
Researchers show monkeys displaying self-recognition for the first time in mirror study.
Eta Carinae: 3D model reveals hidden features of death stars
Nasa discovers new details about destructive stellar system 10,000 light years away.
