SCIENCE

At least 40 people have died in Serbia and Bosnia during flooding caused by unprecedented torrential rain.

Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope and Cassini spacecraft have captured images of auroras around Saturn.

Scientists devise method of proving 80-year-old theory of turning light into matter.

The two baby orangutans are taught the life skills they will need in the wild.

O'ahu was formed from three major shield volcanoes, not two as previously believed.

Stuck solving Google Doodle based on Ernő Rubik's famous 3D logic game?

Best photos of the day: 19 May 2014.

Groundbreaking scientific research could be used to reconstruct dreams, or build e-fits from the memories of crime victims.

European Union sends aid as death toll from worst floods in a century expected to rise.

It's one giant leap for can kind, as Japanese sports drink maker sends its Pocari Sweat to the moon.

High velocity fireball fell on Chinese villages, causing fear among local residents.

Palaeontologists have excavated 150 bones from the species, which is the biggest land animal yet found.

Isaiah Silva of Escondido and another teen arrested for starting wildfire in California.

Reuters gained access to a paper prepared for an agriculture ministers meeting on Monday

The heaviest rainfall since measuring started 120 years ago have led to the worst flooding in more than a century in the Balkans.

Beastly hound remains believed to have been uncovered in ancient abbey.

The Camelopardalid meteor shower will occur on 23/24 May as Earth passes through debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR.

The European Space Agency has taken images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's dusty veil.

Jupiter's Giant Red Spot has shrunk to smallest size ever measured, Nasa confirms.

Mesh structures or a water droplet network? MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers devise different methods.

Best photos of the day: 16 May 2014.

Rocket carrying Express-AM4R satellite was supposed to provide internet to remote parts of Russia.

Meanwhile, AstraZeneca is launching a research fund with the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology

IBTimes UK highlights most endangered animal species in the world

Researchers have found the oldest skeleton in the world in Hoyo Negro in an underwater Yucatán Peninsula cave.

Ancient remains of a skeleton in an underwater Yucatán Peninsula cave confirm origins of first people in Americas.

Scientists reveal reasons eight-tentacled marine creatures don't get themselves in a tangle

600 items from Apollo 1 to Apollo 17, including items used by Neil Armstrong in first moon landing go on auction.

To answer why octopuses do not end up sticking to themselves, the Hebrew University researchers observed the behaviour of octopuses that had an amputated arm.