SCIENCE

US National Weather Service issues winter storm warnings of heavy snow and high winds for wide area from New York to Massachusetts.

The Indian spacecraft was last heard from in August 2009, before disappearing into space.

Japanese government estimated the cost of the nuclear disaster to be ¥22tn (£155bn).

Nasa spent 74 days observing Trappist-1 from the Kepler Space Telescope as part of its K2 mission.

Tropical cyclone struck Madagascar on 7 March.

The whales have also been spotted feeding in areas much further away from their regular Arctic region.

Team hopes ancient sediments revealed by expanding craters can teach us about what region's ecosystem looked like.

'Great earthquakes' of magnitude 8 or more strike on average once a year.

Nearby clocks disturb each other, which eventually results in a 'blurred' flow of time.

Political ideology has been linked to people's willingness to apologise.

Platinum detected at prehistoric Clovis sites is thought to be of meteorite origin.

New technologies applied on ancient bones can provide vital knowledge about genetic threats.

The sixth anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated swathes of Japan on 11 March 2011.

Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines were actioned in one of Trump's first acts as president.

Eight-metre statue of legendary Egyptian ruler is thought to be more than 3,000 years old.

Scientists say failure to understand this basic fact makes him incapable of running EPA.

Laminated nanostructure incorporated into steel prevents it fracturing from metal fatigue.

The 'wall of water' was 21m high from crest to trough.

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics say alien origin 'worth contemplating'.

Using smaller reactors, Applied Fusion Systems hopes to move nuclear fusion forward within four to six years.

At least 16 million people are facing hunger due to a drought that has hit several countries in southern Africa.

Apes too have been decimated by the Ebola virus and scientists are trying to find vaccines to protect them.

As the world's population grows, the vault serves as a 'backup' system for crops from genebanks around the world.

The tubers grew remarkably well in extremely dry soil under a Martian atmosphere simulated in a tiny, hermetically sealed box.

The animals descended from the mountains and invaded residential areas after people were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe.

Archaeologists have also found pieces of statues representing goddess Sekhmet.

Colleagues, friends and family pay tribute to Drever, who helped usher in a new era in astronomy.

Ancient dental plaque of Neanderthals reveals how they used plants as medicine 50,000 years ago.

New phase of matter is mind-bogglingly complicated, but it has implications for quantum computing.