SCIENCE

Tools thought to date back 3.3 million years and pre-date the first humans.

Asteroid 2012 TC4 is up to 40 metres long and could cause huge damage if it hits the earth

Lack of magnetic field on 67P debunks theory of comet formation and evolution.

SpaceX postponed launch of rocket carrying Dragon spacecraft following poor weather conditions.

Dark Energy Survey release first map of dark matter showing clumpy nature.

Large storm rolled through Midwest with tornadoes across Illinois.

Experiment aimed at studying effects of microgravity on human physiology.

From a close approach distance of 13,500 km to the planet, Dawn will be able to pick out the details.

Nasa scientists find evidence that brine water exists on surface of Red Planet.

Speculation of summer heatwave dismissed by weather forecasters at Met Office.

Tokyo Electric Power Co had to abandon its transforming robot snake that was sent into the Number 1 reactor.

Sixth SpaceX cargo mission to International Space Station at 60% 'go' ahead of launch.

A chimpanzee at a Dutch zoo was filmed using a stick to strike a drone flying in its enclosure and knock it out of the air.

Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found to have small vertebra fragment from a baboon.

United Nations International Day of Human Space Flight, 12 April, celebrates the first human in space

The perytons accompanying fast radio bursts were a result of energy discharge from ovens.

Atlantic winds set to clear smog caused by Sahara dust, warm weather and traffic

The International Day of Human Space Flight on 12 April celebrates the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Andrew Danziger claims to have seen a white 'moon like' disk hovering over the Kansas City sky.

A dangerous storm system rolled through Illinois killing at least one person and levelling houses and businesses.

Alien life could thrive on planets without suns in hydrothermal vents below icy layer

Christian Dior's Eau Sauvage, movie icon's aftershave of choice, contains Hedione, which stimulates sex hormones in women.

Huge patch of warm water off US West Coast partially to blame for recent unusual weather.

State-run company said output not affected by fire at east Siberia facility.

White-cheeked macaque discovered in south-eastern Tibet is new species of monkey.

Many of the 149 melon-headed whales have already died after mass beaching in Hokota, Ibaraki.

New species Llallawavis scagliai has most complete fossil of any terror bird discovered.

Ocean acidification led to most of the planet's species going extinct 252 million years ago.

The University of Michigan has built a tiny computer that is the size of a grain of rice