The plant was pollinated with a modern date plant.
Archaeologists discover 5,000-year-old Bronze Age brewery in Israel.
London Zoo's new In with the Lemurs enclosure allowed visitors to get close to the animals from Madagascar.
The voluntary INDCs are meant to give experts an idea of how to compare and arrive at a deal in Paris.
However, the study does not rule out extreme heat events.
Albert Einstein dismissed the 'spooky action at a distance' as it went against the relativity theory forbidding any speed faster than that of light.
Evolution has resulted in male and female birds becoming more similar in colouration, study finds.
Kirobo, a companion robot, was awarded two Guinness World Records
Early predator had "key position" in food network 250 million years before dinosaurs arrived.
Two-year tracking study reveals the day-to-day lives of giant pandas.
Earth Hour, organised by WWF on 28 March 2015, aims to unite people to protect the planet.
Study of primates show males have increasingly elaborate 'badges' where competition is high.
The heaviest rainfall in 80 years has caused flooding in the Atacama region of Chile and landslides in Peru.
Dark matter does not interact with itself, study of colliding galaxy clusters shows.
Some of Antarctica's ice shelves have decreased in mass by 18% over the last 20 years.
Everything you need to know about the astronauts spending a whole year in space.
Asteroid Redirect Mission will test new capabilities including manned mission to Mars.
500m wide asteroid will 'skim past' Earth travelling at 23,000mph.
Case Western Reserve University claims frog can change skin texture within minutes.
Scientists find temperatures peak between 90 and 100km above Venus.
Robinson is the European laureate of the L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science.
Meet Sparklemuffin, Skeletorus and other cute members of Australia's colourful Maratus genus.
Experimental evidence shows stars generate sounds with frequency of a trillion hertz.
The San Diego Zoo announced the birth of a hippopotamus and, so far, things appear to be going swimmingly.
Earth Hour, organised by WWF on 28 March 2015, aims to unite people to protect the planet.
Rio turns rubbish into 'art' to dramatise Olympic bay clean-up task.
In this gallery, IBTimesUK looks at sinkholes and craters that have opened up around the world.
Theoretical study suggests structurally sound lava tubes on moon could house cities.
Cern announces problems with restart of LHC but assures 'signs are good' for second run.
Smith remains highly sceptical over shale oil extraction.