SCIENCE

'You'll fall in love with them, they'll fall in love with you, they'll cry when criticised'

Earhart poses with her Lockheed Electra shortly before her plane vanished during her bid to circle the globe

It is believed that the new discovery could have lived some 200 million years ago

New prosthetic limb capable of "feeling" by recreating sensation of touch through inbuilt sensors.

Soft tissues found in eight poorly preserved dinosaur fossils from Cretaceous period.

As China moves to ban illegal ivory, IBTimes UK looks at the problems facing African elephants.

Some 1.2 million photographs were taken of the wild beasts in their natural habitat

Video captures extraordinary moment white rabbit outruns huge avalanche in Russia.

Nasa's test run of a Mars landing system came to a quick end when the saucer-shaped vehicle's parachute tore away.

'If you were to detect a Seti … it would be from a machine and not an organic creature.'

The yellow-breasted bunting numbers are down by 90%.

Study looks at the link between volcanoes and plate tectonics.

LSE analysis shows China emissions may peak five years earlier than promised.

Eight new cases detected bringing total number of cases to 95.

LightSail successfully deploys in first test of solar-powered space travel.

Sugarcane biomass converted into compounds that can be used as green fuel and lubricants.

Ketamine may stimulate region of the brain's prefrontal cortex, scientists discover.

Adeline enables the lower section of a rocket launcher to detach and fly back to Earth as a drone

'The construction of a station on the moon would trigger a huge surge of technological innovation'

Tombs contained stone and wooden sarcophagi and statues of Egyptian Gods

Scientist discovers why all humans build fires with the same general shape.

Prosocial behaviour was shown by rats where they did not lose anything by not helping.

Roman Empire was trading in Aksum much earlier than believed, shows finding.

Archaeologists recreate lifts that carried up Roman lions into the Colosseum where they fought with gladiators.

The move to translocate the only population of Asiatic lions has not taken off.

The spirals are very small but easily detectable using optical readers.

The HRP-2 robot at the University of Tokyo calculates pushing postures and then repeats them.

Using joysticks with haptic pressure, two men were able to shake hands 5,000 miles away from each other.

Aerial photographs showing some of the ecological challenges faced by our planet.