SCIENCE

An eclipse that happened outside our Solar System has been recorded for the first time since the discoveries of planets in stellar systems other than the Sun’s.

The Delta Aquarids in 2013 will be seen from 27-29 July, but will be drowned in moonlight during the predawn viewing hours.

Dicephalic parapagus is inoperable condition but doctors in Rajasthan working on possible treatment.

Jean Dearing, who was on the terrace when she saw the unusual light hovering over the sky, was quick to grab her camera and take shots.

Scientists plant false memories into brains of mice to make them needlessly frightened of a chamber.

Having between two and four cups of coffee per day helps prevent suicide by acting as a mild antidepressant, scientists at Harvard School of Public Health have said.

Public health officials close section of national forest on Black Death scare.

People tend to suffer from poor sleep around the full moon because of its geophysical rhythms.

Scientists overturn long-held belief about missing empathy response and claim psychopathic criminals can be cured with therapy.

FDA mulls increased restrictions following studies showing minty cigarettes are worse than normal kinds.

Shrinking sea ice is an “economic time bomb” with dire implications, scientists say.

Fifty vertebrae of five-meter-long fossilised tail of a dinosaur were unearthed intact in Northern Mexico.

Hypersexuality is not a real thing, scientists find.

Geim wins the Royal Society’s Copley medal first awarded in 1731.

The newly discovered Pandoravirus shares only 6% of genetic material with known life forms on Earth.

US giant withdraws eight of nine GM applications citing 'political obstructionism'.

Duquesne University researchers believe chimps have different breeding and sexual practice from gorillas and human beings

Lab rats actively sought out more alcohol after a single exposure to nicotine.

Safe procedure could double number of lives saved, claim Boston medical researchers.

iKnife is able to tell which tissue is cancerous in three minutes with 100% accuracy.

Scientists find human and birds have similar wiring in their brains.

Astronaut Luca Parmitano helped back into ISS as concern over water 'leak' ends mission.

Mexico seismologists increase alert level to Yellow Phase 3 in wake of small earthquake and increased volcanic 'exhalations'.

A quarter of young men in gangs suffer from psychosis, study finds.

Cheerful temperament lowers cardiac dangers - even in high-risk cases, say scientists.

Astronomer Ian Morison says Venus should be easily visible in night sky in July.

Researchers create electronic skin sensors that can detect touch, humidity and temperature.

Comet Ison hails from the Oort Cloud, 18 trillion miles from the sun.

Astronomers find four cosmic radio bursts date to a time when the universe was half the age it is now.