SCIENCE

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.

Bear population distributions over the last decades suggest the mammal is adapting to climate change.

Huge 60ft carcass of mammal found at beach being examined by marine biologists.

Exosuit could be used to investigate a 2,000 year-old computer and film Avatar II.

Freak jetstream makes Boeing 777 New York-London flight break the sound barrier.

Chance sighting of ice ring in a flat shelf of continent leads to speculation over its cause.

A map using digital data shows mysterious molecules are present in many environments of the galaxy.

'Close, but no cigar': SpaceX director Elon Musk on failed attempt to land launcher on a floating platform.

Obama previously said he would veto the Keystone XL legislation.

Donations have been flooding in following appeal for koala mittens following fires.

Nasa's NuStar telescope spots two colliding galaxies 134 light years away.