SCIENCE

With just 17 months until the 2016 Olympic Games, sewage at Rio's sailing venue is a major concern.

3,000-year-old tomb discovered a week after temple guard Amenhotep.

SMMT reacts to criticism that diesel is harming environment.

The star moving at 1200kps is the fastest such object recorded so far.

Sugar industry worked with NIH to find ways around tooth decay not involving sugar reduction.

Dwarf satellites discovered orbiting the Milky Way could shed light on dark matter.

Cats like music that is 'species appropriate', scientists discover.

Camera traps show mother, father and three tiger cubs in Russian forest.

Most people cannot accurately remember what the Apple logo looks like, study finds.

Syrian rebels unveil the Volcano, a weapon in the fight against President Bashar Assad's forces.

Europe, North America and Arctic to first feel impact of rapid climate change, finds study.

Kathmandu-based mountain development centre report says river flows not to be significantly affected.

High levels of humidity is causing the skin of ancient mummies to ooze.

The skeletons were discovered in the former burial pit and evidence is carefully recorded.

DNA testing reveals lives of three slaves whose bodies were discovered on Saint Martin.

Sponge-like fossil predates Cambrian period by 60 million years.

Radioactive rubbish sits in blue and black plastic sacks in Fukushima four years after the tsunami.

Carbon-14 results on bones potentially belonging to Mona Lisa to be revealed.

In a landmark attempt to promote green energy, pilots attempt to fly around the world using solar energy.

Wild lynx may prowl the forests of England and Scotland 1,300 years after becoming extinct, if an ambitious program to reintroduce them is successful.

Scientists find world's oldest brains inside 500 million-year-old fossils of shrimps.

Robots are poised to help surgeons perform keyhole kidney transplants for the first time in Britain

UK is to experience a rare conjunction of two astronomical events this month.

A fibre-optic laser weapon capable of stopping a truck dead in its tracks was announced by US-based aerospace and defence company, Lockheed Martin earlier this week.

A woman in Barwell, Leicestershire, claims to have seen two unidentified flying objects with bright lights.

Mummified remains discovered on Pico de Orizaba volcano in Puebla.

Livestream from Slooh observatory to show Dawn spacecraft arrive at dwarf planet Ceres.

Researchers find sharks are the only non-human animal to use the sun's position to prey.

IBTimes UK talks to anti-porn high priest Gary Wilson about why millions of people need to kick their smut habit.