SCIENCE

Ancient Natufian culture signalled funerals to neighbouring communities with huge mortar 'gong'.

Typhoon Goni lashed southern islands of Ishigaki, Okinawa prefecture, with wind gusts of up to 158.8mph.

The space agency is giving $200,000 a year to researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina.

US only makes up 5% of the world's population but it has seen 31% of global public mass shootings.

The 17-year-old panda bear went into labour on Saturday afternoon.

Study on Holocaust survivors shows trauma may be inherited through epigenetics.

IBTimes UK looks back at the category 5 storm that wreaked havoc across America's Gulf Coast.

IBTimes UK takes a look at a few interesting facts about the Moai statues on Easter Island.

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Eventually Oahu's Koolau and Waianae mountains will be flat.

Scientists generate a wormhole that sends a magnetic field from one point in space to another.

Excessive groundwater pumping causing parts of California to sink.

Boy previously bullied because of missing hand gets fitted with prosthetic i-limb Quantum.

CCTV footage shows endangered Asian elephant successfully give birth to female calf at the zoo.

Colima Volcano erupted twice on 20 August, spewing ash and smoke more than 3km into the air.

A study has claimed that without humans, elephants and rhinos would roam northern Europe.

July 2015 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. And 2015 is on course to be the warmest year.

Ancient Eromanga Basin could wreak havoc in Australia through climate change, asteroid strike or another ice age.

Scientists say groove-like markings in the Phrygian Valley are agricultural furrows.

July was the warmest month ever on record worldwide and 2015 has been so far the hottest year.

Andrey Lyubchenko says that he met the creature in the Kemerovo region of Russia.

Thousands of dead fish have been found in the Haihe River, stoking fears over a leak of toxic chemicals.

More than 3,000 astronomers to gather in Canberra in Guinness World Record attempt.

Molecular biologist Nina Fedoroff says perception of genetic modification is hindering progress.

It had been thought that SIV had been present for just 32,000 years

Humans kill large land carnivores nine times faster than they kill each other in the wild.

Hurricane Katrina produced images never before seen in an American city.

Nasa categorically denies any impending asteroid doom.

Amateur footage shows Delta plane struck by lightning while grounded at airport.