Femme Fatale praying mantis lure males with sex then eat them
Scientists find female praying mantis trick males with sex before killing them.
Celtic ancestors had worms: Intestinal parasites found at 2,000-year-old Switzerland settlement
Archaeologists discover intestinal parasite eggs in samples from Basel-Gasfabrik site.
Dry January: Pros and cons of not drinking alcohol for a month
Is dry January good or bad for you? IBTimes UK looks at health effects of booze free month.
Search for alien life: Planet hunters will meet to discuss how to find new worlds
Exoplanet experts to meet to discuss how to best seek out alien worlds over next 20 years.
Assisted Dying Bill: 'Overwhelming majority' of public now supports right to die law
Open letter signed by doctors, clerics and politicians urges change to euthanasia law.
Japan: Man tested for Ebola after touching body bag of victim in Sierra Leone
Man being treated in hospital after developing fever on returning from Sierra Leone.
Massive earthquake wiped out ancient Chinese city 3,000 years ago
Scientists propose new theory for disappearance of Sanxingdui culture.
Best of 2014: Five mind boggling theories about the universe and parallel worlds
Top five weird and wonderful theories about the universe announced this year.
Beautiful black and white photographs of the Nazca Lines – and the Greenpeace blacklash
Nazca Lines photographer Edward Ranney responds to Greenpeace publicity stunt.
300 million-year-old 'spiny shark' fish eye shows first evidence of colour vision
Primitive fish eye fossil suggests colour vision first emerged at least 300 million years ago.
Turkey's oldest recorded stone tool discovered dating to 1.2 million years ago
Oldest stone tool in Turkey shows early humans passed from Asia to Europe far earlier than thought.
Ebola drug BCX4430 shows promising results in rhesus macaques
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals drug finds 100% survival in some monkey testing.
Best of 2014: Cutest, weirdest and most bizarre animal stories of the year
IBTimes UK round up of the best animals from science over the last year.
Nasa's dark matter-seeking NuStar snaps 'most sensitive solar portrait ever taken'
Incredible image of the sun taken with high-energy X-rays.
ESA time-lapse video shows Alexander Gerst's 12,500 pictures of Earth in 6 minutes
Astronaut Alexander Gerst's images from the ISS made into time-lapse video.
Humans' fragile bones the result of swapping foraging for farming
Humans had bones as strong as orangutans before the invention of farming
Boxing Day tsunami: The facts about the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster
The exact death toll still remains unknown
'David Attenborough' one of 98 new beetle species discovered in Indonesia
Experts find almost 100 new species of beetle in Java, Bali and other Indonesian islands.
Boxing Day tsunami: How the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake became the deadliest in history
The earthquake and tsunami struck on 26 December 2004
Winter Solstice 2014: UK sunset times and science behind longest night of the year
21 December winter solstice to mark the shortest day of the year and countdown to spring.
Colorado man Les Baugh with no arms controls two prosthetics with just his mind
John Hopkins researchers announce first double amputee to use mind controlled prosthetics.
8,000-year-old olive oil discovered in Israel 'possibly oldest evidence of production in world'
Archaeologists find traces of olive oil in ancient pottery vessels.
Quantum physics just got less complicated with 'Rosetta Stone' breakthrough
Researchers find two baffling features of quantum world are the same thing.
Is ibuprofen an anti-ageing wonder drug?
Ibuprofen found to extend the lifespan of worms and flies.
Llama antibodies can destroy wide range of HIV viruses
Unconventional source of HIV fighting antibodies found in form of llama.
Birds sense and flee storm conditions days before deadly tornadoes hit
Warblers sensed devastating tornado storm that killed 35 people days before event.
Eta Carinae: Massive supernova could annihilate life on Earth, but it is extremely unlikely
Star 100 times bigger than the Sun is approaching detonation point, sparking apocalypse theories.
Life-extending ovarian cancer drug approved by European Union
Olaparib becomes first therapy for treatment of advanced BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer.
Dinosaur killing asteroid almost led to mammal mass extinction too
Many mammals perished in mass extinction event 66 million years ago, study finds.
Where are mooooo? Meaning behind cow vocalisation deciphered by scientists
Researchers eavesdrop on conversations between cows and their calves.
