SCIENCE

Hugging increases stress and anxiety levels in dogs, new study reveals.

Feeding livestock maggots could help sustainable meat production, but will consumers be able to stomach it?

Climate change could be shifting Greenland's weather patterns, which is pushing cold air toward the UK.

Illegal gold mining is destroying swathes of the Amazon rainforest, poisoning the river and the people who live along it.

The Sentinel-1B joins its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to deliver information for various services.

Watch this special documentary from IBTimes UK on the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

'Shark eye' camera allows scientists to understand how catsharks see one another in deep water.

India is suffering from a water shortage that has affected 330 million people.

Bed bugs tend to move toward the colour red as they themselves are red, and tend to live in packs.

Ants can build rafts made entirely from the insect themselves, and become more organised with every flood.

Memorial services are held in Ukraine to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

The fourth reactor of Chernobyl's nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded on 26 April, 1986.

Using the so-called green biodiesel for transport could increase Europe's overall transport emissions rather than decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

Nightshade secretes nectar from its wounds, attracting ants that attack the herbivore and defend the plant.

Soldiers left their marks on the walls of Naours tunnels as they went to visit the ancient underground city.

Evolution of male population expansion can be traced by analysing differences between Y chromosomes.

Researchers took close-up photos of 1,800 unsuspecting species and recorded drone footage of the landscape.

German team looking to establish sex of chicks before they hatch to spare them painful death if they are male.

Reuters photojournalist Gleb Garanich photographed the survivors as they visited the ghost town and the dusty derelict flats there that were once home.

Thirty years later, IBTimes UK looks at Chernobyl's future as construction of the New Safe Confinement continues.

CERN's IT department has released data together with a virtual machine environment to make analysing data easier.

War in the east and new concerns raised by the Fukushima disaster presents a dangerous future for Ukraine.

According to Tyson, we should not dismiss the idea our universe is a simulation created by an advanced civilisation.

Chimpanzees show great dexterity with their hands, squeezing the fruits not unlike humans.

Interactive photos, taken a year apart, show areas of Nepal immediately after the quake and today.

Study predicts heatwaves will increase in frequency all over Europe.

Hailstones the size of coconuts damage thousands of homes across the South East Asian country.

On the first anniversary of the Nepal earthquake, geologists speak to IBTimes UK about why it was so destructive.

Researchers show movement of dinosaurs across the globe during Mesozoic Era.