SCIENCE

NASA has announced it will start accepting applicants for its next class of astronaut candidates in November.

Human skulls taken from Namibia by Germany during the colonial period have finally been returned after more than 100 years, but now historians and activists demand that Germany pay reparations for the slaughter of more than 60,000 people.

NASA and the European Space Agency will combine forces to attempt an ambitious study of the sun.

Many typhoons have battered the Philippines already this year, and another two struck last week. These pictures show the devastation after Typhoon Nalgae hit the Philippines on Saturday.

Written in the Stars: Supernovae Research Lands Nobel Physics Prize.

While many rejoiced at the idea intelligent aliens can be discovered, theologians it seems are more worried about the clash it would create with God, leading Christian thinkers to ask at the 100 Year Starship Symposium if Jesus also died for the salvation of aliens.

The huge and powerful Alma telescope has begun probing into the universe, and astronomers hope it will reveal the earliest dawn of the cosmos.

A new 'superbrocoli' developed by British scientists to fight heart disease has gone on sale today in the UK.

Researchers at the Institute of Food Research and the John Innes Center have developed a new broccoli, known as Beneforté, with capabilities to fight cancer. It is now available in the UK market.

Scientist Dies of Cancer Days Before Receiving Nobel Prize. A Canadian born scientist who was yesterday awarded the Nobel prize for medicine died of pancreatic cancer just days before he would have found out that he had been awarded the prize.

It has emerged that Ralph Steinman, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday morning, died of pancreatic cancer last week.

A new pay-as-you-go mobile phone charging system could make solar power a more affordable option for customers in the developing world.

The remains of a previously-undiscovered prehistoric crocodile measuring 20 feet long has been discovered by U.S. researchers in a Columbian coal mine.

Scientists have discovered a huge hole in the ozone layer above the Artic roughly five times the size of Germany, allowing harmful ultraviolet radiation to hit parts of Canada, Russia and Europe this spring.

Killing sharks is set to be banned across a huge area of the Pacific Ocean after the Marshall Islands government decided to create the largest shark sanctuary in the world, covering nearly two million sq km (750,000 sq miles) of ocean, which cover about eight times the size of Britain.

Dinosaurs fossils found in southern Alberta, Canada have shown some 74-million-year-old creatures were able to eat just about anything in order to survive and thrive.

Britain's Autumn Heatwave; When Will the Temperatures Drop?

British scientists are ready to hunt a life in another planet with the help of European Extremely Large Telescope, which allows a detail study of subjects including planets around other stars, the first objects in the Universe.

British Astronomers Develop New Giant Telescope to Hunt For Life on Other Galaxies

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveals that there are significantly fewer near-Earth asteroids in the mid-size range than previously imagined.

British holiday makers heading to their favourite Mediterranean spots have been warned of the increase in deadly jelly fish.

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, the first to achieve orbit around Mercury, has provided scientists with further important information about the planet, by revealing data that showed signs of widespread flood volcanism similar to Earth, provided clearer views of Mercury's surface, provided the first measurements of its elemental composition, and details about charged particles near the planet.

New research, sure to be controversial, finds that the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active drug found in "magic mushrooms," can benefit the personality.

A Canadian advisory panel on business and the environment is warning that greenhouse gas emissions could cost the Canadian economy up to $43 billion each year by 2050 if the government does not come up with a domestic plan to tackle global warming.

British Holiday Makers Warned Over Deadly Jellyfish Invasion. British holiday makers heading to their favourite Mediterranean spots have been warned of the increase in deadly jelly fish.

China is set to make a giant leap forward in its space program, when a space laboratory named Tiangong-1 will be launched into orbit this afternoon, atop a Long March 2F rocket.

An app costing £60 ($95) that can reduce your eye-age by ten years and increase your reading speed is to be released in the next few months.

A nicotine substitute which is available online for only 12p could help triple a smokers' chance of quitting cigarettes, according to new research.

After the "Running Chicken" nebula, comes a cosmic "Fried Egg Nebula" as the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, spotted a monster star also called a yellow hypergiant.