Adorable baby sloth at London Zoo has teddy bear as surrogate mum [Photos and Video]
Baby two-toed sloth being hand reared at ZSL London Zoo after mother stopped producing milk.
US: Great white shark thwarts marathon swimmer's quest
Simon Dominguez was forced to abandon his record bid to swim from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands.
Cecil the Lion: White House to review petition to have lion killer Walter Palmer extradited
200,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Obama administration to extradite Palmer to Zimbabwe.
Vast hidden 'ocean' found under Chinese desert
Ocean acts as a major carbon sink, sucking up CO2 and preventing greater climate change.
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How brain surgery helped Mikhail Kutuzov and Russia defeat Napoleon's army
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Panspermia: Concentrated areas of life in the universe could prove it travelled across space
Panspermia is the theory that life crosses the universe and ends up on a planet.
Mysterious red scars on surface of Saturn's icy moon Tethys baffle scientists
Unexplained reddish arc-shaped streaks spotted on Tethys by Cassini-Huygens probe.
Washington DC sinking fast increasing threat of sea-level rise
The melting of a giant prehistoric ice sheet is causing the land to sink.
EmDrive: Roger Shawyer paper describing space propulsion on UAVs finally passes peer review
Shawyer describes using EmDrive to power the X-37B space plane and to create affordable flying cars.
Astronomers capture great aurorae on brown dwarf LSR J1835 outside our solar system
The team believe that stellar objects such as this can produce much greater lights
Israel: The Dead Sea is shrinking and hundreds of sinkholes are opening up on its shores [Photos]
First observed in the 70s, there are almost 4,000 sinkholes along the shores of the salty sea today.
Cecil the lion: Inside the big game hunting industry where shooting a lion starts at $50,000
Big game hunting is a multi-million dollar industry across Africa.
Panda in Taiwanese zoo accused of faking pregnancy to get better living conditions
Yuan Yuan showed the typical symptoms that pandas usually experiences
Nasa Golden Record: Listen to tracks on board Voyage spacecraft on SoundCloud
Voyager's Golden Record greeting for aliens has been released on SoundCloud.
EmDrive: Dr Martin Tajmar generates thrust in test of controversial space propulsion technology
Dr Martin Tajmar says "Our test campaign cannot confirm or refute the claims of the EmDrive."
China: Houses covered in ivy as nature reclaims abandoned fishing village [Photos]
A dense layer of ivy covers the houses in the abandoned fishing village on a Chinese island.
Chimps in Uganda are eating clay to supplement their diets after raffia palm tree destruction [Video]
Chimpanzees in Budongo forest are eating and drinking from clay pits.
Northern white rhino on brink of extinction as one of five remaining members of species dies
Only one male of the species still remains, but he is too old to reproduce.
International Tiger Day 2015: Sad facts about the species being pushed to extinction
Sad facts about the species being pushed to extinction
China builds world's largest radio telescope
The world's largest radio telescope is now under construction in Pingtang
Nasa scientist Dr John Grunsfield: We're close to finding out whether there is alien life
Grunsfield said: 'We are on the cusp of being able to answer [whether we are alone or not]'
Ancient Caribbean lizards found to have barely evolved in past 20 million years
The conditions have remained consistent enough that they haven't needed to change.
Radioactive Russian satellite 'almost' crashed into Australia: Bill Clinton made emergency plans
Former Queensland premier reveals emergency plan that went all the way to the Whitehouse.
West Africa Baka pygmy growth rate study shows convergent evolution and adaptive nature of mankind
Baka pygmies grow at a standard rate other than for the first two years of their lives.
Guinness World Records crowns 37-year-old Jia Jia the world's oldest panda
A female giant panda called Jia Jia broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest panda ever in captivity
ISS astronauts dissolve antacid tablet in bubble of water in mid-air in ultra-HD [Video]
Nasa recently delivered super high-definition cameras to the International Space Station.
Ancient ritualistic burnings in Iron Age South Africa shed light on Earth's magnetic field reversal
Magnetic field record from minerals from Iron Age settlement discovered in South Africa.
Long-skulled 'alien skeleton' discovered by archaeologists at Russia's Stonehenge
UFO enthusiasts were quick to claim this was evidence of aliens landing on Earth.
Archaeologists discover ancient Egyptian stelae in Wadi el-Hudi with 'important inscriptions'
The messages on the stones are yet to be decyphered.
Vikings 'invaded for exotic adventures and social bravado as much as silver booty'
Vikings raids provided opportunity to be noticed by peers and superiors, study says.
France: 560,000-year-old human tooth dubbed Arago 149 discovered in Tautavel cave
One of the oldest human fossils ever found in Europe unearthed in Arago Cave near Perpignan in France.
Did Napoleon's army die of starvation?
An analysis of their bones suggest starvation as the most likely cause of death.
T.Rex teeth were perfect for tearing through flesh and crunching bones
Theropod dinosaurs had unique, deeply serrated teeth that made them excellent predators.
Nasa's SLS the world's most powerful rocket clears design review
The rocket will be a crucial element in space missions to Mars and beyond.
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