SCIENCE

Sardinians harbour a distinctive genetic heritage as a result of having lived isolated on an island.

Ability to defy genetic programming may have helped them become highly intelligent.

Mile-long Stad Ship Tunnel is expected to cost £250m and open in 2023.

Where had it been hiding for almost 4.5 billion years?

Instincts could simply be evolutionary echoes of what our ancestors learned the hard way.

The first ever chained Bell test on trapped ions proves this method could be best for quantum computers.

The exoplanet, 39 light years away, appears to have an atmosphere rich in water and methane.

Pembient wants to turn rhino horn from a rare commodity into an abundant bioplastic within the next five years.

For the first time, a scientist presents a full nutritional template for the calorific value of the human body.

Extreme turbulence – which can hospitalise passengers – is set to increase by 150% this century.

Porcupine remains have never been found this far north before.

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists have been launched in the UK and Israel.

The fossil is thought to be between 15 and 30 million years old.

The incident was filmed at Shuklaphanta National Park.

Rescuers used boats, helicopters and tractors to ferry around 2,000 people out of Edgecumbe town in North Island.

Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists has been running in the US for 10 years and is open to all scientists in the UK under 42.

Experiment is aimed at recreating weightlessness of International Space Station.

Experiments have shown that great apes know when researchers are mistaken about the location of an object.

Gray wolf populations in Europe and North America are doing well as they live in close proximity to cities.

The fault on the northern end of the Arabian Sea could produce a magnitude 9 earthquake.

But when it melts it creates a toxic slush full of carcinogenic compounds.

As the end of the orbiter's mission approaches, IBTimes shows some of its best photographs.

The new snail-worm species was discovered on the hull of the USNS General Hoyt S Vandenburg shipwreck.

Adding fluting to stone tips is tricky and can easily backfire, creating weaker tips rather than stronger ones if done wrong.

Males of this species stick out a full 21-day orgy without eating, ruining their body condition and shortening their lives.

Astrophysicists show three events that can lead to merger through LIGO gravitational waves.

The remains of the pyramid were discovered at the Dahshur royal necropolis.

A 420m-year climate record suggests we are entering uncharted territory in terms of atmospheric CO2.

For the first time, researchers have directly dated rock art in Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa.