SCIENCE

The evacuation order for several towns in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is set to be lifted on 31 March.

Prolonged exposure to radiation in space could affect astronauts' hematopoietic stem cells.

The faults run beneath San Diego, Orange County and the LA basin.

Buena Vista hypothesis says ancient fish spotted prey on river banks, encouraging them to move from their aquatic habitat onto land.

Androstadienone and estratetraenol are sold as pheromones, but a double-blind trial finds they don't work.

The ornate burial garment was decorated with sea shells and the teeth of red deer.

Muon neutrino candidates arrived within 100 seconds of each other, indicating a single source origin.

New species of frog has been observed in the Andean forests.

The mitigation efforts promised in the Paris Agreement could buy time for marine life to adapt to changing seas.

The US-backed Iraqi forces have reconquered Mosul's central bank, along with museum looted by jihadis in 2014.

Councils across England foot £50m bill to clear up nearly a million rubbish dumping instances a year.

Scientists just doubled the number of materials that could be used in solar fuels.

Burials were found in the main chamber of one of the region's largest dolmens.

There have only ever been a handful of sightings of True's whales alive.

Abdoul Salam Sidibe accused of selling live animals, including endangered chimpanzees, rare birds and parrots.

Once thought impossible, scientists have now created time crystals in the laboratory.

New findings point to the Roman structure being used as a fortress in the 12th century.

Modafinil, methylphenidate and caffeine all led to an increase in chess players' scores.

Humans are evolved to be aggressive and technological advances create apocalyptic potential.

Nasa's Cold Atom Lab has been designed to create temperatures 'over a 100 million times colder than the depths of space.'

The creature had consumed coins thrown by visitors in a pool for good luck.

Limiting climate change to 2C warming still would not stop the Arctic ice from melting away.

People minded for iron and lead since the Stone Age in Poland.

Stones are thrown at a herd of 25 elephants when they come out of the forest.

Musk needs to know that not everybody is on board with his apparent space race.

This year's 22 award-winning images include a 3D model of a pig's eyeball, a parrot's intricate system of blood vessels and a visualisation of tweets about breast cancer.

Black and white colouration is rarely seen in nature and has posed a long-standing problem for researchers.

Cold water sinks – but in in the polar seas, what goes down must come up.

WHO claims quarter of all global deaths of children under five caused by filthy environment.