SCIENCE

Forecasters warn of heavy rain and strong winds across the Great Plains, Midwest and South this weekend

What led to meltdown and explosion at Ukraine nuclear power plant and what is the fallout?

Researchers at Spanish National Research Council say wild animals benefiting from ionising radiation

The new born Java mouse-deer is the size of a hamster and only grows as big as rabbit.

Space agency joins start-up firm to launch educational toy for children

Scientists in Switzerland have created the world's tiniest mag cover using a 11x14-micrometre image.

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers create Geckskin, a material that can stick on almost anything

University of Cambridge researchers show how earliest Earth organisms became metabolically active.

Nasa image processing technique uncovers Hubble Space Telescope photos of newly formed planets

Best photos of the day: 25 April 2014

The blazing PS1-10afx star explosion spotted in 2010 was not as big as previously thought.

List of 420 endangered species protected from consumption in China in landmark victory for animal rights in communist nation.

Its feared that the mammoth iceberg could contribute to rising sea levels.

US-led team finds 160-million-year-old pterodactyloid fossil providing a vital missing link in the evolution of flight.

Essential life lesson for baby bear at Russian zoo does not come naturally

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin wants Nasa to send humans to an asteroid rather than 'lasso' a meteor as planned.

Nasa satellite images show large-scale decline in greenness of Africa's Congo rainforest.

A solar eclipse on 29 April 2014 will see 'ring of fire' called an annulus around the silhouette of the moon.

Harvard researchers accidentally found a hemihelix shape which could spur creation of new molecules.

Leeds university researchers claim women with wider hips more likely to have more sexual partners

Trompe l'oeil depicts derelict swimming pool in Osaka shopping centre

Charles Bolden, current Administrator of Nasa, unveiled 'stepping stones' for the 2030 mission to Mars.

Researchers from US and Kenya find marital infidelity more likely where men have longer penises.

Nasa is to test a new Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) which helps landings on Mars.

US campaigners for space protection B612 Foundation recorded 26 asteroid strikes on Earth between 2000 and 2013.

Strange duck-like recordings around Antarctica ocean found to be minke whales.

Best photos of the day: 23 April 2014.

Harper government reclassifies humpback whale's status so controversial $7.9 billion Northern Gateway pipeline project can legally pass.

University of Washington confirms first "self-lensing" binary star system in KOI-3278.