SCIENCE

Three engineering students in Chile have invented a smartphone charger that harnesses power from plants.

Lopsided explosions and a missing neutron star at the core are some of the features of the explosion.

The Planetary Society's LightSail project is set to realize Sagan's vision after 40 years.

Loss of nutrients and carbon stored in the soils poses a double threat to human security.

Mercury and Earth are the only two planets with a magnetic field.

A tornado in Cisco, Texas has killed at least one person and levelled homes, but elsewhere rain and hail reigns

Professor Lee Berger says remains of Australopithecus sediba include fossilised skin and particles of trapped food

Everest yet to be analysed, so no one knows how high it is.

Ayelet Carasso and Doron Marco say meals can be put together in 30 seconds.

Ticks, brain worm thrive in the rising heat.

A tropical storm warning is in effect from South Santee River, South Carolina to Cape Lookout, North Carolina.

Oldest fossil brains ever discovered helps scientists identify transition point from soft to hard bodies.

Pirate bounty found by divers off Madagascar's Sainte Marie island.

Up to 300 people, many of them foreigners, are believed to have been buried by an avalanche in Langtang.

3D printed human skin tissue would be useful for testing products and advanced research.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) unveiled details of its Mars mission.

Resumption of drive hunting of dolphins is increasing species vulnerability around the globe.

This year's most powerful solar storm erupts from 'wildly active sun'.

NASA's FINDER device locates four Nepal earthquake survivors buried beneath 10 feet of rubble.

The magnesium, potassium and phosphorus attract the plant to kimberlite soils.

UN had expected 400 ppm mark to be reached much later this year or next.

Critics worry new US rules not strict enough to douse fire threat

The 2,000-year-old artefact will be on show until 2 January 2016.

Lokiarchaeota discovered that could bridge gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

Over 100 pieces of space debris detected from US Defence Meteorological Satellite Programme.

A large lake disappeared into a hole under the ground in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest.

Volcano eruption blanketed runways at San Jose airport with ash.

Spraying spiders with graphene produces super strong silk that could lead to new class of materials.

Headquarters of army of Thutmosis III and Ramses II discovered in eastern bank of Suez Canal.