SCIENCE

Shortlisted images in the Open category of the world's biggest photography competition.

Shortlisted images in the Professional category of the world's biggest photography competition.

A steep decline in the price of photovoltaics has been predicted by a think tank, which will make solar energy the cheapest source of electricity.

By binding to iron sulphide, the metals are transported to the surface by vapour bubbles in magma.

Craters discovered near Gazprom's Bovanenkovo gas field have serious implications for global warming.

Nearly 600 cases of measles, a potentially fatal disease has been recorded in Berlin since October.

Ancient Bolivian farming population took their dead on road trips.

Global warming sceptic Wei-Hock Soon yet to respond to funding allegations, as CfA launches inquiry.

Early humans developed kindness and compassion before intelligence, research claims.

Phlegra Montes range in northern hemisphere shows features indicative of past glacial activity.

Loss of habitat to infrastructure projects and encroachments is pushing the tiger into more confrontations with humans.

The Higgs boson, or God particle, was first seen in the particle collider at Cern in 2012.

Oxford and Leicester University researchers to map sites with satellite and aerial photography

Tiger family in China shows populations are finally returning following conservation effort

A heavy winter storm has dumped snow on Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.

Hawking says aggression threatens to destroy mankind but empathy would bring us together.

The new device has the potential to save thousands of lives

Study of 17,000 animals over 542 million years shows support for Cope's rule.

The discoverers found evidence that mystics were using animal bones to predict future

A new simpler algorithm can spot faces at many different angles, even upside down.

Men with shorter index fingers and long ring fingers get along better with women, study shows.

Scientists discover third species of seadragon off Australian coast

New York professor says dark matter interactions could be responsible for mass extinctions.

Ichthyosaurus anningae lived in West Dorset during Lower Jurassic period.

At twice the global sea levels rise, most of the islands in Sunderbans are expected to be submerged in two decades.

A snow storm in Istanbul grounds planes, halts traffic, and forces closure of Bosphorus Strait.

Oregon chub becomes first fish species in history to be delisted from Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Animals.

Google's fifth annual Science Fair competition challenges 13-18 year-olds to come up with something to change the world

It is a massive increase on the 1 foot that it rose in the previous century