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AI should be 'human-like' and capable of empathy to avoid existential threat to mankind

AI expert says we should develop machines capable of experiencing human emotion to negate potential existential threat.

Sony World Photography Awards 2015: Open shortlist

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

Sony World Photography Awards 2015: Professional shortlist

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

Solar energy to be cheapest power source in 10 years

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.

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Climate sceptic Willie Soon 'received funding from energy industry'

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

Evolution made humans compassionate before intelligent: York University researcher Penny Spikins

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

Mars' mountain range could be sitting on massive ice deposits says ESA

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

India: Shrinking forests bring the endangered tiger into confrontation with humans

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

'God particle' discovered in low cost experiment using superconductors

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

Endangered Archaeology: Project launched to map ancient sites in Middle East before they are destroyed

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

Rare footage shows Amur tiger family playing in China

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

Jerusalem weather: Picture-postcard pretty photos of the Holy Land's ancient sites in the snow

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

Stephen Hawking: Survival of human race depends on colonising planets and end of aggression

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

Ebola: WHO approves Corgenix kit which will cut test times to 15 minutes

The new device has the potential to save thousands of lives

Marine animals follow Cope's rule of evolving to bigger sizes over time

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

3,300-year-old shrines that were used for reading future found in Armenian hilltops

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

Researchers at Yahoo Labs and Stanford University have programmed a computer algorithm that can spot faces at different angles

Face recognition algorithm breakthrough can spot even partially hidden faces on CCTV

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

Finger length predicts how nice men are towards women

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

Male 'Ruby Seadragon' pregnant with dozens of babies identified as entirely new species

Scientists discover third species of seadragon off Australian coast

Mass extinctions, asteroid impacts and volcanic eruptions caused by dark matter, US scientist claims

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

First new ichthyosaur species for 130 years discovered sitting in Doncaster Museum

Ichthyosaurus anningae lived in West Dorset during Lower Jurassic period.

Fast rising sea levels in Sunderbans could trigger world's largest migration soon

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

Turkey: Istanbul snow storm causes travel chaos but leaves beautiful scenes

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

Oregon chub delisted: Tiny fish is first species to be removed from endangered list

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

Google launches Science Fair 2015 challenging students to change the world

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

Climate Change: New York City sea levels could rise by up to 6 feet by end of century

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

F1 racing cars of the future could be made from limpet teeth after strongest material discovery

Snail-like creatures' teeth could be used to make cars, boats and planes

Villa of Ben Hur's arch enemy identified through 2,000-year-old wine vats

Villa of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus identified on Tuscan island of Elba.

Earth had extremely close encounter with 'Scholz's star' 70,000 years ago

Star came within 0.8 light years of Earth passing through the Oort cloud, scientists say.

Why marijuana makes you hungry: Cannabis munchies mystery solved by Yale scientists

Marijuana munchies mystery: Yale School of Medicine researchers discover neurons involved with appetite suppression affected by cannabis

1,000-year-old temple of Buddhist saint Atish Dipankar discovered in Bangladesh

Temple gives insight into life of saint Atish Dipankar

Curious case of a missing brown dwarf 163 light years away

Scientists unable to find brown dwarf that should be orbiting pair of stars V471 Tauri.

Islamic extremist planned to 'make Yellowstone supervolcano erupt' in US terror plot

Chiheb Esseghaier allegedly plotted to trigger catastrophic volcanic eruption.

Mutant fish with two mouths caught in Australian lake

Bony bream with two mouths caught by fisherman Garry Warrick in South Australia.

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