SCIENCE

Apes too have been decimated by the Ebola virus and scientists are trying to find vaccines to protect them.

As the world's population grows, the vault serves as a 'backup' system for crops from genebanks around the world.

The tubers grew remarkably well in extremely dry soil under a Martian atmosphere simulated in a tiny, hermetically sealed box.

The animals descended from the mountains and invaded residential areas after people were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe.

Archaeologists have also found pieces of statues representing goddess Sekhmet.

Colleagues, friends and family pay tribute to Drever, who helped usher in a new era in astronomy.

Ancient dental plaque of Neanderthals reveals how they used plants as medicine 50,000 years ago.

New phase of matter is mind-bogglingly complicated, but it has implications for quantum computing.

The first regional analysis of Aboriginal genetic history will be used to construct genealogies and repatriate artefacts.

Little is known about how and when the Silk Route emerged but this study offers new clues on the subject.

European Neanderthals feasted on mammoth in the north but southerners ate no meat at all.

Irregularities in skulls can be used to judge how closely related populations were.

Scientists also found the earliest oxygen ever detected in the galaxy A2744_YD4.

The evacuation order for several towns in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is set to be lifted on 31 March.

Prolonged exposure to radiation in space could affect astronauts' hematopoietic stem cells.

The faults run beneath San Diego, Orange County and the LA basin.

Buena Vista hypothesis says ancient fish spotted prey on river banks, encouraging them to move from their aquatic habitat onto land.

Androstadienone and estratetraenol are sold as pheromones, but a double-blind trial finds they don't work.

The ornate burial garment was decorated with sea shells and the teeth of red deer.

Muon neutrino candidates arrived within 100 seconds of each other, indicating a single source origin.

New species of frog has been observed in the Andean forests.

The mitigation efforts promised in the Paris Agreement could buy time for marine life to adapt to changing seas.

The US-backed Iraqi forces have reconquered Mosul's central bank, along with museum looted by jihadis in 2014.

Councils across England foot £50m bill to clear up nearly a million rubbish dumping instances a year.

Scientists just doubled the number of materials that could be used in solar fuels.

Burials were found in the main chamber of one of the region's largest dolmens.

There have only ever been a handful of sightings of True's whales alive.

Abdoul Salam Sidibe accused of selling live animals, including endangered chimpanzees, rare birds and parrots.

Once thought impossible, scientists have now created time crystals in the laboratory.