SCIENCE

Professor Hawking said that scientific and technological advances were humanity's biggest threats

Denmark is on track to hit its 2020 target of 50% electricity produced by wind turbines.

Yeast responsible for fermentation in wine, beer and bread is found to breed within the guts of wasps.

Volatile volcanoes in the Snowball Earth theory could be the cause of cap carbonates, solving the mystery.

Earthworms on the Isle of Rum have been found weighing more than 12g - the heaviest-ever recorded in the UK.

South Africa is in the grips of a severe drought that shows no sign of abating after the driest year on record.

US researchers find way to see where energy travels when high-intensity laser hits fuel target.

Hagfish can secrete slime as a defensive mechanism, which can be used to manufacture new hydrogels for humans.

Scan Pyramids scientists begin analysing muons collected inside Egypt's Bent Pyramid.

The seven-metre long shark is the same size as the one depicted in the movie franchise, Jaws,

A gas cloud has been found that could contain an intermediate black hole, possibly the first ever discovered.

SpaceX founder posted spectacular footage of failed rocket landing to Instragram.

The first flower of the outer world is an orange zinnia, which blossomed aboard the International Space Station.

New mystery surrounds dimming of star KIC 8462852: Could it really be linked to alien megastructures?

The giraffes were part of the reason the national park they live in was awarded UNESCO protected status.

Back to drawing board for SpaceX as Falcon 9 damaged while attempting landing on floating base.

A nuclear blast would cause an asteroid to lose mass and change its direction of travel

It also briefly mentions what happened on 29 June 1174, when the prince was murdered.

Peake was conducting repairs with colleague Col Tim Kopra outside the International Space Station.

The volcano spewed an ash cloud 3 kilometers high.

Cave paintings in southern France could be the oldest known depiction of an eruption.

We collate life forms that have flummoxed experts across the world.

Fellow astronaut Tim Kopra reports leak in spacesuit helmet prompting early end to walk.

Most of the rhinos killed were black rhinos; considered critically endangered.

Theory suggests teleporting an organism's quantum state is possible by using quantum superposition.

Physicists say in special circumstances one qubit could be retrieved from a black hole.

Bodies are buried in foetal position inside pods and then a tree is planted above.

Some scientific principles do not make sense, as physicists worry we may not be able to learn anything more.

Waves pounded the mid-Atlantic islands but damage was less severe than feared.