SCIENCE

A remote island in southern Japan is home to 22 people and more than 120 cats.

Unique case involves actual encounter with "ant-like creatures".

Monsoons in India can drop by 18% following large-scale deforestation in higher latitudes.

World Wildlife Day, observed on 3 March by the United Nations, raises awareness of wildlife crime.

A weather satellite providing real-time weather reports to the US Navy and Air Force shattered into a thousand pieces.

Drought that hit Syria in years before war likely propelled the conflict, study finds.

Cosmic dust found in galaxy that formed just 700 million years after Big Bang.

Mysterious lead coffin found near Richard III remains opened by experts.

Archaeologists find remains of 13th century military outpost belonging to Genghis Khan.

Water scarcity and disturbance at roosting sites are blamed for the alarming dip in birds at Bharatpur.

Rescue operations are underway in Afghanistan's Panjshir province after a massive avalanche.

New strains of wheat rust fungus could prove deadly against resistant varieties also.

Analysis of data from 600 Martian days of observation shows methane signatures.

Cell membrane made of nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen can survive in methane-rich atmospheres as on Titan.

Bacteria from three poorly understood phyla isolated from groundwater.

Rats adjust how much help they provide based on the quality of help reciprocated.

Sloth fossil found in northwestern Venezuela from Late Miocene period.

Drake is against sending out signals to aliens because 'they have been watching us for years'.

Senator for Oklahoma tossed snowball in attempt to show climate change as hoax.

International Polar Bear Day is observed on 27 February to raise awareness of climate change threat

Study shows evidence of wheat in Britain 2,000 years before modern humans started farming.

Global warming slowdown was natural and will reverse in next 20 years according to a new study

Construction on Quay Valley in California's Central Valley is set to begin in early 2016.

Pharaoh Senebkay, a ruler from Ancient Egypt whose tomb was discovered in January 2014, was brutally killed in battle.

Cornell says that the Rockies in North America would probably be the safest bet

People who sleep more than eight hours a day are increasing the risk by 46%.

A region measuring the size of Sri Lanka is lost to deforestation every year.

MIT professor Jeremy England uses thermodynamics to show why life on Earth came to be.

The higher greenhouse gas effect of CO2 has been linked to increased burning of fossil fuels.