SCIENCE

The results of the fifth annual microbiology competition have been released. Get your microscopes ready...

Human beings, flower pots and cubes among the images created.

Mutts are more interested in the smell of others, showing the self-awareness linked to empathy.

Nations continue to push for international agreement to limit global warming as end of COP21 looms.

Researchers discover volcanic activity hidden beneath icy surface of Antarctica.

Pics taken a day or two apart show Cumbrian towns during the flooding, and after the water had receded.

Extremely well preserved Mosasaur fossil is the first to be found in Japan.

The businessman behind brands North Face and Esprit, died of acute hypothermia after falling into a lake.

Prominent academics agreed to cast doubt on global warming in exchange for money from oil and coal industry.

Physicists working at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory find no evidence universe is a hologram.

The Liberal Democrat Leader was himself stranded on 6 December due to the flooding.

Environmental campaigners have built a self-sufficient squat camp called Grow Heathrow in the village of Sipson.

Neanderthal bone development gave them a further projected skull, compared to humans.

I hope this epic hashtag fail doesn't stop IBM reaching out to women who would be excited to join their ranks.

A grey soupy haze shrouds Beijing's landmarks as the Chinese capital issues first red alert.

Film star and former California governor also said the focus needed to be on new technology.

Arsenic-contaminated water if consumed over a long period of time can cause chronic diseases.

Ancient Puebloans built monumental great houses of Chaco Canyon with 240,000 trees from 75km away.

A new study suggests dinosauromorphs are up to 10 million years younger than previous estimates.

Hollywood star said ignore the naysayers who say a global deal is out of reach.

Global carbon emissions expected to decline by 0.6% thanks primarily to China.

The world's most active volcano, on the island of Sicily, has been putting on an impressive display.

Google, Facebook, Twitter and others pitch in to assist with the floods that have killed nearly 300 in south India.

Authorities shut schools and restrict traffic and industrial production amid dangerous haze levels.

Archaeologists are slowly piecing together the history of Stonehenge

Watch Comet Catalina on its way back past Earth after close encounter with the Sun.

Plying of all types of vehicles will be restricted in world's most polluted city.

IBTimes spoke to Ethereum's Alex Van de Sande about the possibilities opened by smart contracts.

The important and unusual site was found in Luoyong city in the Henan Province.