Smell of death: Understanding the scent of decomposition to find disaster victims - living and dead
Researchers pinpoint the moment the smell of death changes during decomposition.
Late Antique Little Ice Age: Volcanic eruptions helped trigger fall of Eastern Roman and rise of Arab Empire
Researchers claim global cooling 1,500 years ago triggered major social upheaval in Europe and Asia.
Bolivia's vanishing Lake Poopó: ESA images show fully evaporated lake from space
ESA Proba-V mini-satellite images second-largest lake in Bolivia disappearing over the course of three years.
Vibratory urticarial: Rare disorder makes people break out in hives when exposed to vibrations
Genetic mutation means people break out in skin rashes as a result of vibrations.
Brazil: Zika virus discovered in saliva and urine samples raising transmission fears
Brazil's health institute announces first time active Zika virus has been found in saliva and urine.
Being Tasered impairs memory raising concerns over police questioning and suspect rights
Being Tasered can cause short-term cognitive decline and functioning similar to dementia.
Japan: Sakurajima volcano erupts 30 miles from Sendai nuclear plant spewing lava and ash 2km into sky
The volcano has erupted causing a 2km radius evacuation zone to be put in place.
GM mosquitos and evil vaccines: Ridiculous and concerning Zika virus conspiracy theories
Zika virus conspiracy theories have started to surface online – here is why they are wrong.
BMI not a good indicator of health: 75 million Americans wrongly classified
Having a high body mass index does not necessarily mean the person is unhealthy, UCLA study finds.
Resting Bitch Face: The science behind the 'bitchy resting face' phenomenon
Kristen Stewart, Kanye West and Anna Kendrick all supposed sufferers of resting bitch face.
Indonesia: Female orangutan seen killing another with help of male 'hired gun'
First evidence of lethal fights between female orangutans witnessed by Swiss scientists.
Portrait analysis reveals Michelangelo suffered from arthritis in his hands
Doctors say Michelangelo suffered from osteoarthritis in the joints of his left hand.
Nuclear fusion: Max Planck's Stellarator produces first hydrogen plasma – watch live online
Angela Merkel invited to switch on first hydrogen plasma marking start of Wendelstein 7-X operation.
Stephen Hawking Reith lecture: Mini black holes could provide world electricity demand
Stephen Hawking talks about black holes as part of the BBC's Reith lectures.
Women are more likely to be infected with contagious yawning than men
Study suggests women are more likely to yawn contagiously because they are more emphatic.
Theory of Mind: Ravens know when they are being watched
Ravens appear to understand what others see, shedding light on the Theory of Mind.
Egypt: 4,500-year-old boat discovered buried beneath tomb 'to sail owner through underworld'
Archaeologists excavating Abusir South find 18m-long boat beneath tomb of wealthy individual.
Rising CO2 concentrations making fish 'drunk and disorientated'
Carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater will make fish intoxicated decades before previously thought.
Roasted tortoise was favoured food of Palaeolithic people who occupied Qesem Cave in Tel Aviv
Archaeologists find evidence of early humans feasting on tortoises at 400,000-year-old site.
California: Wreckage of Prohibition 'sin ship' SS Monte Carlo emerges from sand thanks to El Nino storms
Infamous shipwreck from 1936 appears on California beach after El Nino causes very low tide.
Neanderthal extinction driven by cultural level of modern humans
Competition with modern humans, not epidemics or climate change, caused Neanderthal extinction.
Folded structure of human brain determined by physical growth process rather than biology
Why do our brains look the way they do? Scientists use 3D printing technique to find out.
Australia's only active volcano cluster erupts with Big Ben spewing lava down mountainside
Lava seen erupting from Mawson Peak by University of Tasmania researchers.
128 tennis balls can be arranged into more combinations than there are particles in the universe
Tennis ball arrangement problem has potential to predict avalanches and the formation of the deserts.
Spectacular images show plankton blooms in the Arabian Sea from space
Phytoplankton blooms return to the Arabian Sea as winter monsoon and dust fuel growth.
Ancient tablets show Babylonians tracked Jupiter with geometry 1,400 years before Europeans
Recently discovered Babylonian tablet served as key to show how they tracked Jupiter 2,000 years ago.
Challenger disaster: Nasa pays tribute to mission crew on 30th anniversary of fatal explosion
Nasa to host Day of Remembrance in tribute to crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
Would 'sacrilegious' experiment require rewrite of physics textbooks? Probably not
Australian physicists set to find out if the internal structure of protons can be changed.
Crete: Sculptures of Greek gods Artemis and Apollo discovered in ancient city of Aptera
Very well preserved 2,000-year-old statuettes of Artemis and Apollo uncovered in Aptera, Chania.
Conspiracy theories: Moon landing would have been exposed in 3.5 years had it been faked
Equation for how hard it would be to maintain a conspiracy developed by Oxford University researcher.
