Polar bears caught eating dolphins for first time – and then freezing leftovers
Researchers first documented this in 2014
PornHub crowdfunds $3.4m to make first porn film in space
Eva Lovia and Johnny Sins hope to film space porn via PornHub's "space sexploration" programme.
LightSail spacecraft spreads its solar sails
Privately funded space project to demonstrate innovative solar sail passed with flying colours.
India: WCS suggests reliable method of monitoring endangered Asian elephant population
The approach is based on direct sighting of elephants as opposed to dung estimates.
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Saturn's mysterious outermost ring just got bigger and emptier
The span of the Phoebe ring is 30% more than believed earlier.
Nobel Prize winning scientist Tim Hunt resigns after sexist speech 'the trouble with lab girls'
I'm sorry if I hurt anybody's feelings but girls are a distraction, Sir Tim reiterates
Britain has a National Bird and it's the robin red breast says BBC Springwatch
More than 220,000 people voted for Britain's top - but chippy and aggressive - feathered friend.
Nasa hi-res global maps predict future weather across world cities
The maps give an idea of temperature in the world's cities between 2050 and 2100.
NASA denies internet rumours that a giant asteroid will 'destroy the earth' in September
Conspiracy theorists and religious sects claim world will end between 22 - 28 September.
Global warming to stunt plant growth by 11% by 2100 with 'dire consequences'
Some regions of Earth will see 200 fewer days of plant growth by end of the century.
Dramatic ice sheet collapse 135,000 years ago triggered massive climate change and sea level peak
Collapse of ice sheet caused planet to warm in unusual way in ice age before last.
Laser-powered spacecraft energy delivery system could save the Earth from asteroids
University of Alabama Huntsville system, previously funded by Nasa, has received its first patent
Jurassic World: What were the biggest dinosaurs ever to have lived?
The five largest dinosaurs in history.
Robot and Japanese master swordsman compete in armed combat
A video posted to a social media website on 4 June showed a sword challenge between a one-armed robot and Japanese master swordsman Isao Machii.
Solar-powered boat capable of 20kph invented by Vietnamese farmers
Tam Nong state officials have tested out a solar-powered boat that is noiseless and has no pollution
Easter Island statues: Incredible images show discovery of tattoos carved on their bodies
Art depicts images such as crescents
Nikola Tesla: Serbian Orthodox Church calls for inventor's ashes to be saved from Satanists
Church claims devil-worshippers in Belgrade are performing rituals at the remains of the electricity pioneer.
Monkey business: Wino chimps get drunk on alcoholic sap
A 17-year study was led by Dr Kimberley Hockings from Oxford Brookes University
Ancient Caral civilisation: 3,800-year-old statuettes of priestess and politicians discovered in Peru
Archaeologists discover three terracotta figurines made by Caral civilisation.
Bonn climate talks: Scientists invoke permafrost threat to induce urgency
The effects of carbon locked in the permafrost when released will be substantial.
Whaleception: Prehistoric whale remains found inside another whale that was eaten by sharks
Remains found at 'Whale Valley' south-west of Cairo
Raining lamprey mystery: Foot-long vampire fish fall from the sky in Alaska [Photos]
Alaska Department of Fish and Game called to reports of eel-like fish falling from the sky.
Computer that works on water droplets developed at Stanford
The system uses the physics of moving water droplets.
SpaceX turns to ambitious project for Internet beaming from space
The project will see a swarm of satellites deployed in low orbit around the planet.
British Nobel Prize laureate Sir Tim Hunt sparks outrage over 'keep women out of labs' comment
'You'll fall in love with them, they'll fall in love with you, they'll cry when criticised'
Last film surfaces of American pilot Amelia Earhart
Earhart poses with her Lockheed Electra shortly before her plane vanished during her bid to circle the globe
Tyrannosaurus Jones? New type of dinosaur closely related to the T.rex discovered in Wales
It is believed that the new discovery could have lived some 200 million years ago
World's first 'feeling' prosthetic limb returns sense of touch to amputees
New prosthetic limb capable of "feeling" by recreating sensation of touch through inbuilt sensors.
Blood cells and collagen discovered in 75 million-year-old dinosaur bones by chance
Soft tissues found in eight poorly preserved dinosaur fossils from Cretaceous period.
Elephant poaching crisis: Last chance for Africa's greatest creatures
As China moves to ban illegal ivory, IBTimes UK looks at the problems facing African elephants.
Snapshot Serengeti: Photography project captures wild beasts in their natural habitat [Photos]
Some 1.2 million photographs were taken of the wild beasts in their natural habitat
Helicopter films rabbit outrunning avalanche in Russia [Video]
Video captures extraordinary moment white rabbit outruns huge avalanche in Russia.
Botched parachute complicates Nasa LDSD test for second time
Nasa's test run of a Mars landing system came to a quick end when the saucer-shaped vehicle's parachute tore away.
Astronomer: 'First alien contact likely to be through robots, not an organic creature'
'If you were to detect a Seti … it would be from a machine and not an organic creature.'
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