SCIENCE

Barack Obama has a good reputation when it comes to the environment, but he left quite a few loose ends.

Very Large Telescope will be used to look at the star system and consider the best targets for exploration.

Study indicates a giant collision between Earth and the Mars-sized protoplanet Theia never happened.

Male pectoral sandpipers have more chances of producing offspring by visiting many breeding sites.

Bodies were embalmed in the Renaissance not for secular but for religious purposes.

Industry, weather and geography conspire to make Beijing a hotspot for toxic smog.

Icy temperatures across both continents were responsible for more than 20 deaths.

8 January is also the 300th anniversary of the death of physicist Galileo Galilei.

Why can't SeaWorld use VR technology instead of live orca, asks Peta's Mimi Bekhechi

Pro-fossil fuels Trump transition advisors are trying to get government aid for renewable energy projects cut.

There's just a one in a million chance of predicting an explosion – and US scientists have done just that.

Some beluga whales are delaying their return to more southerly seas for winter for more than a month.

Growing inequality and elite-wannabes hungry for power is a toxic mix, warns academic.

Auckland zookeepers battled to save the rare giraffe twin but were forced to end his suffering...

Parts of Europe have been hit by bitterly cold temperatures and blizzards, with temperatures as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius.

Charity Survival International claims Baka Pygmies have been suffering abuses due to WWF's work for decades.

Iceberg 1/4 the size of Wales would result in the Larsen C Ice Shelf losing over 10% of its area.

Calculations indicate Rydberg atoms will be disturbed in a significant way even by low-mass particles

X-rays and data from the Hubble Telescope show the densest cluster of black holes ever observed.

Polish archaeologists want to fill in the missing gap in the African country's ancient records.

The pots may have been seen as a symbols of the womb in which to bury the deceased – adults and infants.

Tomatillo fruit fossils show family evolved tens of millions of years earlier than thought.

A new analysis puts the estimated date of permanent occupation of Chusang, Tibet, back by thousands of years.

We seem to be well on track for the 2020s instability peak, warns Peter Turchin.

Traditional ways of life in the Arctic and marine life at risk as the coasts collapse.

Pollution is thought to be the main cause for the link, but factors such as noise could play a role too.

Chemicals banned decades ago are still present in the Arctic, while levels of new toxic pollutants are rising.

The space agency has prioritised the missions over returning to Venus to explore its volcanoes.

Scientists find fault system in Indian Ocean that was probably involved in the Wharton Basin earthquakes.