SCIENCE

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.

Researchers in Yokohama say research has major implications for treating liver failure.

Two men cured of HIV after stem cell treatment for blood cancer lymphoma.

Pierce Brosnan’s Daughter Charlotte Emily Died From Ovarian Cancer at 41, 12 years after her mother died from same disease.

Drone with camera attached was apparently controlled by Sao Paulo news station Folha TV.

Check out photos of the super moon, a celestial event that brings the Moon and the Earth closer together.

Venom from 'Dracula’s children' can sneak past victim’s defence system of people with heart problems.

Twenty five declassified files from National Archives suggest that the reason behind the shutdown of the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) UFO desk and hotline in 2009.

A video recorded by one of the protesters present at the spot shows the alien light hovering over the Brazilian sky, as if trying to get a close look of the event.

Cancer-immune rat gives hope for new treatments for disease.