SCIENCE

Senators declare climate change is real, but only half believe humans are responsible.

Study conducted in US and Netherlands links political extremism with belief in conspiracy theories.

The blue and gold beard on King Tut's burial mask was knocked during cleaning.

Elephant 'provoked' by flash of camera while couple was trying to click picture of herd.

Ebola constitutes bigger threat to gorillas and chimps with higher mortality rates and close contacts.

Jane Wilde admits in her memoir that religion helped her care for her atheist ex-husband Stephen Hawking.

Astrophysicist claims our galaxy could be a galactic transport system.

Nundasuchus songeaensis had steak knife teeth and lived almost 250 million years ago.

IBTimes UK looks at numerous occasions Obama has spoken about climate change.

Lower than expected levels of plutonium in interstellar dust from ocean floor calls for new supernova theory.

Rare 'living fossil' frilled shark caught by fisherman off south-eastern Victoria.

In his State of the Union speech, Obama advised astronaut Scott Kelly to Instagram everything.

Bullish on cutting emissions, the fourth largest emitter of carbon dioxide announced plans to green its energy, with a major thrust on solar power.

Professor Peter Piot, co-discoverer of Ebola, warns that more needs to be done.

UFO enthusiast posts 130,000 pages of government's UFO records online

Research shows the need to act sooner than later to check ice melt in Greenland.

Theoretical model shows that most of the carbon dioxide stored underground remains in a form that can escape.

Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee under threat from dramatic habitat loss.

Greek words have been deciphered from a charred Herculaneum papyrus, buried for centuries after devastating explosion of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.

BP will try to whittle away at $13.7 billion (£9.03bn) in potential fines under the Clean Water Act as the penalty phase starts on Tuesday (January 20) in its trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Up to $13m worth of metals found in sludge from city of one million.

A plane powered by the sun will embark on its unprecedented flight around the world next month as its pilots seek to prove that flying is possible without fossil fuels.

Top scientists might move the minute hand on the clock due to climate change and nuclear tensions.

Manicured lawns emit more greenhouse gasses than they soak up, study finds.

Sea snails use insulin to immobilise whole schools of fish for dinner, Utah scientists find.

Exeter Cathedral has put in a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for £8.7m to restore the Roman baths.

The tiger survey counted 2,226 tigers in the main reserves in the country.

The journey of uranium from the surface to the core reveals how Earth's crust has been recycled over millions of years.

Study reports organic carbon exported in glacier outflow will increase 50% over the next 35 years.