Doomsday Clock: Watch announcement of how close Earth is to catastrophe live online
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to announce how close we are to the apocalypse with its Doomsday Clock.
Domestic cats in China arrived 5,500 years ago independently of neighbouring lands
Cats were domesticated in China at the same time as the rise of agriculture.
GM monkeys engineered to show autism-like behaviours
Scientists hope monkeys with autism gene will help lead to treatments.
Lupus: 10 genes associated with autoimmune disease discovered among Asian population
Scientists discover the gene GTF2I is one of the 'key players' in susceptibility for lupus.
Odds of record-breaking global warming not being man-made one in 170,000
Record warm years over last 15 years almost certainly a result of human activity.
France's Cave of Forgotten Dreams has earliest depiction of volcano eruption - why are they absent from early art?
Study says Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave drawing may show a volcanic eruption from 36,000 years ago.
Full wolf moon 2017: What it means and where to watch it live online
The full Wolf moon – or January's full moon – will be visible on 12 January.
Bolivia's Lake Poopo dries up: Before and after images show the now-barren landscape
Climate change, drought and agriculture all blamed for Lake Poopó evaporating.
Aquatic cocaine: Demand for dried totoaba fish bladder 'maw' pushing two species to extinction
Demand for dried fish bladder has surged since 2013 and now costs $8,500 per kg on black market.
Mindfulness for children helps prevent obesity by stopping impulses to overeat
Brain scans reveal mindfulness could recalibrate brain imbalance associated with childhood obesity.
Zoothera salimalii: Himalayan forest thrush discovered in India and China through musical song
Himalayan forest thrush is only fourth new species to be discovered in India since 1949.
Climate experts agree 2015 was hottest year on record and 2016 may break more records
The NOAA, Nasa and Met Office have all announced that last year was the hottest year ever recorded globally.
Submerged ancient palace of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang discovered
Seaside palace of first emperor of Qin dynasty discovered off Suizhong coast.
Frankenstein science: Maverick Italian surgeon announces 'successful' China monkey head transplant
Monkey was kept alive for 20 hours after head transplant as questions are raised over surgery.
Airborne ultrasound: Noise at museums, train stations and sports stadiums could be making people ill
Inaudible frequencies cause people to suffer migraine, nausea, dizziness and fatigue, study indicates.
Hidden figure discovered in Leonardo da Vinci's notebook Codex Arundel 263
British Library multispectral imaging reveals 'fugitive image' in one of da Vinci's notebooks.
One of York's decapitated Roman 'gladiators' came from the Middle East
Mystery origins of Roman-age decapitated bodies revealed through whole genome analysis.
Womb detox warning: Do not put Embrace Pangaea's dangerous 'herbal pearls' up your vagina
Embrace Pangaea's bags of herbs marketed as a 'womb detox' can be "very dangerous".
Cocaine in high doses can make the brain eat itself with cells digesting their own insides
High doses of drug found to trigger 'autophagy' in mice, a process in which cells digest themselves.
Booze yeast 'mates' inside the intestines of wasps, Italian and Spanish researchers discover
Yeast responsible for fermentation in wine, beer and bread is found to breed within the guts of wasps.
Marijuana does not cause decline in intelligence among teenage users
Twin study reveals adolescent marijuana use does not directly cause cognitive decline.
Nuclear fusion: Limitless clean energy edges closer as scientists 'see' energy during fast ignition
US researchers find way to see where energy travels when high-intensity laser hits fuel target.
Ancient Egypt: Cosmic particles inside Bent Pyramid set to shed light on how it was built
Scan Pyramids scientists begin analysing muons collected inside Egypt's Bent Pyramid.
How to retrieve information from a black hole? Quantum teleportation could provide the answer
Physicists say in special circumstances one qubit could be retrieved from a black hole.
Become a tree after you die in egg-shaped biodegradable pod
Bodies are buried in foetal position inside pods and then a tree is planted above.
Humans to evolve webbed feet because of sea level rise? Maybe, but probably not
Evolutionary biologist says claims about human adaptations is more science fiction than fact.
Big Bang theory: Secondary inflation after initial burst explains dark matter estimates
Physicists propose new theory that says there were periods of inflation after the Big Bang.
Superluminous supernova mystery: Brightest explosion ever seen has astronomers completely confounded
ASASSN-15lh is two times brighter than supernova record holder comes from object just 10 miles across.
Banned pollutant found in blubber of marine mammals shows PCBs still at dangerously high levels
European whales, dolphins and porpoises contain among highest levels of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls on planet.
Smelling Alzheimer's: Unique urine odour discovered at early stages of disease
Urine smell in Alzheimer's patients may allow identification before cognitive decline.
