SCIENCE

Anders Persson's image beats strong competition from headlouse egg, kidney stone and bat X-ray

Nasa has released a gallery of space images to welcome the premiere of Neil deGrasse Tyson's new television series.

Three years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, what is happening at ground zero?

Three years on from devastating tsunami, radiation still leaking from damaged nuclear part

Extinct species 'unexpected button toothed crocodile' discovered by amateur fossil hunters.

US cocaine use dropped by half between 2000 and 2010 while marijuana use jumped by 30%.

Astronomers map galaxies sitting within 35 million light years from Earth.

Nasa launches series of Asteroid Data Hunter contests to improve the way we locate and destroy meteorites.

The US Geological Survey is also predicting a 5% to 10% chance of a quake on the same scale as Sunday's tremor.

Space capsule makes touchdown with astronauts Mike Hopkins, Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy aboard

Best photos of the day: 11 March 2014

Elephants can recognise whether a human is a friend or enemy from their voice.

A trio of astronauts who carried an Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games into space last year land safely.

Experts believe Lydia the great white shark crossing the Atlantic is going to give birth in the Mediterranean sea.

Thirty memorable photos of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

EXCLUSIVE: IBA director Owen Geach says terrorism is most likely cause - but every theory leaves scores of questions.

Rod Somerville wasn't going to let a little thing like a deadly snake bite come between him and his beer.

Airport authorities announce compensation sweetener for homes affected by extra air traffic

The website tracking the shark crashed after it was confirmed she was on course towards the British coast.

Honoring Carl Sagan's Cosmos series, NASA releases its real Space-Time Odyssey pictures.

Best photos of the day: 10 March 2014.

Scott and Mark Kelly monitored physiologically and mentally for effects os space travel.

A study has discovered four new man-made ozone-depleting gases in the atmosphere despite the Montreal Protocol ban.

UK's largest anti-fracking protest yet attracts more than 1,000 demonstrators to centre of Manchester.

£25 million probe will leave Earth on a mission to boldly detect alien life.

New theory claims 'dark matter disc' triggers asteroid showers and could have produced asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs.

Researchers scanned woman's brain during her out-of-body state

Tracked great white shark could be the first of her species to cross the Atlantic from coast of US to Cornwall

One of world's top aerial photographers gets London show for the first time.