SCIENCE

JAXA is studying roundworms on the International Space Station to help cure bone and muscle diseases.

Lava has been gushing from fissures north of Iceland's largest glacier for five months.

BREAKING: Astronauts on board International Space Station 'safe' after being evacuated.

The snake can jump five metres and disappear suddenly, says the biologist who spotted it.

Genes exchanged in a horizontal transfer during reproduction makes each strain unique.

Around 1700 sq km of land around protected areas has been lost to gold mining in a decade

Study looks at adaptive significance of zebras and tests the theories about them.

Study of Makushi people shows how men want relationships based on 'supply and demand'.

Motorists warned to take care driving due to "treacherous conditions" in coming days

The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory is 325m high, making it taller than the Eiffel Tower.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk plans a human colony on Mars assisted through commercial satellite production.

Slaughtering tools from 2.5 million years ago aided evolution of human communication.

UK Space Agency announces mystery conference about Beagle 2 Mars probe.

Dogs rolling over during play is a combat manoeuvre used before launching an attack.

Amazing photos of workers catching fish inside a flooded abandoned shopping centre in Bangkok.

Human bias towards larger animals has misconstrued true size of many sea beasts.

Increase in infection by flatworms in the Holocene period is being linked to sea level rise similar to that seen today.

One degree of rise in temperature locally will cut wheat production by 6%.

The service module of China's unmanned test lunar orbiter successfully entered an eight-hour orbit around the moon, state media reported.

SpaceX mission deemed a success despite failure of launcher to land on floating touchpad

Using big data to mine Facebook Likes can predict a person's psychological traits better than humans.

Stanford scientists say cost per ton of C02 emissions is $220.

Age of Fishes fossil shows creature that had traits of both bony fish and sharks.

White-handed gibbon study shows newly-discovered form of language.

Stabilisation of warming over last 15 years explained by atmosphere-cooling eruptions.

Nasa has released a series of posters advertising vacations in the outer world.

The 14ft long creature looked like a dolphin and preyed on fish and reptiles.

From 1706 in 2010, the tiger numbers are now between 1720 and 1800.

Jet streams linked to global warming shown to increase turbulence in transatlantic region.