SCIENCE

About 30% of the global population already faces lethal heat for 20 days a year or more.

Cats dominated the ancient world as much as they now dominate the internet.

Now in its 12th year, the international competition received almost 10,000 entries from 74 different countries around the globe.

Portugal's worst forest fires in living memory have so far claimed the lives of 62 people, most of whom died in their cars as they tried to flee the inferno.

The victims were not local and had to adapt to the local diet.

The marsh could hide further remains of the knight and his possessions.

The new military shakeup is a step towards boosting America's space warfare divisions.

Planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb is the coldest planet with a temperature of -223°C.

From identifying solar wind impacts to discovering metal ions, Maven has made groundbreaking discoveries of the Red Planet.

Astronomers suspect that the Sun's twin 'escaped' into space, 'never to be seen again.'

The new hostel is reportedly located in heart of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, just 9 miles away from nuclear disaster site.

Scientists found a peanut worm, a flesh eating crustacean and a sea pig 4,000 metres down under the sea.

The pliosaur was a more gentle relative of its large and fearsome cousins.

Dazzling jewel scarabs are related to the scarabs worshipped in Ancient Egypt.

The burials are threatened to be destroyed by the sea.

The signal was transmitted over an unprecedented 1,200 Kms using Micus, a quantum communication satellite that China launched last August.

Big shark circled boat and at one point attempted to take a bite at the craft's motor.

Now we know what a volcano's magma looks like in the years before it erupts.

The imposing Shigir Idol is 5.3 metres tall.

The melting was caused by an incredibly strong El Niño event, predicted to become more common with climate change.

Multispectral imaging can help reveal long-lost ancient texts.

Musk hopes nearly one million people will have visited Mars in the next 100 years.

About 40,000 people a year die from air pollution in the UK.

How do ground spiders capture prey larger than them?

Experts say a type of plankton known as coccolithophores is responsible for the change in colour, not pollution.

Massive landslides crashed into villages in the southeast of Bangladesh, after torrential rains.

Fossils discovered in southern Australia reveal that the enormous bird was capable of flight.

The mission entails launching a space observatory from the Baikonur Cosmodrome next year.

We're getting one step closer to The Martian.