SCIENCE

As utilities play bully to topple popular solar power, it is up to nations to ensure the advantages of solar power are not lost.

Earth Day is celebrated on 22 April to build support for environmental protection around the world.

Ways to help reduce global warming on Earth Day, celebrated on 22 April by Earth Day Network.

The remedies are on papyri found 100 years ago but have only just been translated.

Record-breaking strontium atomic clock achieves most precise and stable levels of all time.

Thick-toed geckos filmed playing with a collar one had managed to remove during pre-launch period.

Tiger cubs rush to the rescue after brother falls into pool at Japanese zoo.

Hubble's successor could raise the stakes in search for aliens, says a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Exploration vessel crew has an unexpected encounter with an 11m sperm whale on a routine trip.

A huge storm has battered Australia's east coast, killing three people and washing away houses.

Autonomous fish-inspired robots will help protect shoals of fish from environmental threats.

Bondi Beach closed and drivers warned to stay off roads.

Group threw blanket over animal and tossed it into car trunk.

Two environmentalists killed each week in 2014, with Honduras the most dangerous place to campaign

Chemical analysis of 19th-century champagne provides insight of winemaking practices.

Female vampire squids have reproductive cycles unlike all other soft-bodied cephalopods.

Waste that could have been recovered and recycled was worth $52bn, including 300 tonnes of gold.

Fragments of limestone enclosure wall of 5,000-year-old city discovered in Kom Tuman.

Seismologists are investigating whether fracking causing quakes in Irving, Texas.

Theft, imprisonment, and road trips: Einstein's brain had a strange afterlife

US scientists develop nanoparticle coated mesh that could help clear oil spills.

Online petition aims to stop 420-acre 'Grand Canyon Escalade' tourist centre being built.

High velocity debris identified by the EUSO telescope will be targeted by the laser.

The largest search for alien life looked at heat signatures of advanced civilisations.

Top 10 Albert Einstein quotes about life, love and God.

Theoretical physicist Einstein died on 18 April 1955, aged 76, in Princeton, New Jersey.

ULA to send flight-ready rocket components from Ultem plastic into space on unmanned flights.

Amerindian villagers found to have highest levels of bacterial diversity ever reported in a human group.

Analysis of bones from Gough's Cave shows intensive processing and consumption of human flesh.