SCIENCE

The discovery could help medical researchers tackle leprosy in humans.

As Trump was elected, world officials gathered to discuss how we can stop the thing he claims isn't happening.

For each ton of carbon dioxide emitted, an extra three square metres of Arctic summer sea-ice is lost.

The man was probably a slave or a man condemned for an offence.

Full moon will coincide with perigee on 14 November and is the second of three supermoons.

The fossil suggests that a group of feathered dinosaurs was thriving right before the mass extinction.

Thirty UK science centres and museums hope to grow seeds into nation-wide apple orchard.

November's supermoon is worth watching – it will be the biggest supermoon in seven decades.

Johannesburg Zoo had to close after a section of wall collapsed in the rains.

Access to women may be one of the main reasons why Norsemen raided Europe.

The Paris climate deal was signed by over 100 nations in December 2015 to curb global warming.

Archaeologists unearthed money pots used to collect ticket fees and beads and pins from costumes.

The Red List of species under threat must be brought up to date to reflect this finding, study authors say.

Researchers believe other, similar-sized bodies of water could be hiding under volcanoes around the world.

Trump wants to invest in space exploration, but has no interest in low-Earth orbit activity.

Neanderthal inbreeding likely gave rise to harmful genes, lost in larger human gene pool when the species interbred.

Climate scientists are calling Trump's election an "environmental disaster".

The proteins show strong similarities to those found in the claw sheaths of birds living today.

The earliest dinosaurs may have walked the Earth 20 million years earlier than we thought.

Online psychology experiments have shown that generosity is more valued than the bottom line.

DNA analysis reveals how early settlers on Greenland relied on marine mammal meat more than we thought.

Volcanic material entering the sea may have caused a massive tsunami off the coasts of Crete.

Evidence of life on land has been found in rocks that are 3.2 billion years old.

The move comes after the lower house in Japan's parliament approved the accord.

Producer Elizabeth White discusses 'wall of snakes' scene in latest BBC series.

Over 90% of ivory shipments seized found to be from elephants killed within the last three years.

Cliff erosion on the south coast has accelerated by an order of magnitude in the past few hundred years.

Older male bonobos' poor eyesight is bad for their social life.

Insect damage on fossilised leaves suggest biodiversity recovered quicker in the Southern hemisphere.