SCIENCE

Environment Agency issues flood alert for every river in Somerset after days of severe rainfall.

Advisory comes from National Marine Aquarium and the Shark Trust experts.

Researchers find air temperatures near four largest wind turbines in the world have risen significantly.

Scientists discover one of the world's smallest and oldest known micro-organism living in the sludge of a lake in Norway.

Agriculture developed in the Middle East about 11,000 years ago, say researchers.

The contest is organised by the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

McGill University researchers made the discovery while studying data of breast cancer patients.

Discovery made with the help of TripleSpec, a near-Infrared Triple Spectrograph at California's Mount Palomar Observatory.

Researchers from McGill University and the University of Minnesota have made the finding.

Population of reef sharks declines by more than 90 per cent.

Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine have found that birds have their own built-in GPS system that uses the earth's magnetic field.

The European Space Agency has given the contract for the orbiter to Astrium UK.

Nasa's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite capturesan ageing star erupting dust on the cosmos.

Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously estimated.

Scientists discover spiral patterns left behind by lava flows in the Athabasca Valley on Mars.

In what can only be described as a truly incredible video, a golden orb spider was caught feasting on a tree snake it snared in its web.

Tiny crystals allow computers to perform calculations at great speed.

Researchers from the Health Protection Agency's Independent Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation have found no evidence that mobile phones are harmful.

In Denmark, people die of cancer and in Afghanistan because of excessive drug abuse.

A suspected tornado tore a path through Rugby causing damage to fences and even uprooting trees on the street.

Nasa's Dawn spacecraft finds iron and magnesium on Vesta.

Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of the ice sheets are causing major loss of Antarctic glaciers, suggests a new study.

Launched on April 24, 1990 aboard space shuttle's Discovery's STS-31 mission, Hubble revolutionized the study of universe and helped scientists unravel many evolution theories.

Gynaecologists discover a tiny sac inside the corpse of an 83-year-old woman that could be the famed G-Spot

Environment Agency warns heavy rainfall could lead to floods in south western England

The killers opened fire from helicopter, slaughtering 22 elephants at Garamba National Park. The poachers removed the elephants' tusks and genitals, which were reportedly smuggled to Asia.

Sombrero galaxy has both the shapes of round and thin disks and is located 28 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.

Deadly Asian tiger mosquitoes are likely to spread Dengue and Chikungunya diseases across the UK.

As the earth's climate warms, the methane frozen in reservoirs stored in Arctic tundra soils or marine sediments is released into the atmosphere.