Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is on the increase for the first time in ten years.
Physicist John Brandenberg claims intelligent life on Mars was annihilated by nuclear attacks
Anglerfish Melanocetus captured on film in wild off Monterey Bay.
Woodland Trust debunks popular 'confirmed sighting' of Loch Ness monster.
Papers showing development of theory of evolution released by Cambridge University Library
Country is passing legislation to help meet ambitious climate change targets.
Coming after the UNEP report, the World Bank commissioned report finds the planet cannot avoid a rise in temperature and its damaging consequences.
European Space Agency's spacecraft to be launched in 2016 is expected to reach Mercury in 2024 and stay in orbit while studying the planet.
From views on God to theories on the universe, Einstein's letters and manuscripts continue to throw light on what the genius believed in.
In the largest ever study of its kind, scientists tested 409 pairs of gay brothers.
Quake hits Nagano region 170km north-west of Tokyo, leaving traffic disrupted and 200 homes without power.
Created by German laser enthusiast Patrick Priebe, watch can pop balloons and light matches.
Sichuan province in western China was devastated by an earthquake in 2008 that killed 90,000.
Project aims to establish whether food crops can be grown on planets such as Mars or the Moon.
The explosion happened about 12 miles off Louisiana's coast just before 3pm on Thursday.
Experts say this year will be the hottest since records began in 1880.
Designing circuits with suitable processes and materials, researchers are able to make electronic components disintegrate after their tasks are done.
Financial commitments have poured in from nations towards helping poor nations adapt to climate change, but actual investments have dropped.
Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside have found thread-like "filaments" in the cosmic web that accelerated the formation of galaxies
Discovery of ancient canyon rules out popular theories of formation of Himalayas.
An airborne laser system has enabled the discovery of an ancient Roman gold mine that used complex river diversion and storage systems.
Scientists decipher 1,300-year-old handbook from Egypt.
A comparison of the mouse and human genomes has yielded results showing the details where man and mice part ways.
The UK's first ever bus powered on food waste and human poo has taken to the road today
Before and after photos of Mýrdalsjökull ice cap show shrinking over 30 years.
In the search for new particles and forces that can possibly explain what happened after the Big Bang, two new baryon particles have been detected at Cern.
An invisible cohesive force seems to be at work in aligning distant quasars and their black holes to others in the universe.
Seals have learned to listen to scientific equipment to score a free meal.
David Iron tells IBTimes UK more about the first ever crowdfunded space mission and its objectives
Small volcanic eruptions contribute to global cooling phenomenon, scientists find.