6,500-year-old mystery burial pit full of amputated arms points to extreme violence in Neolithic France
Archaeologists discover pit of skeletons with amputated left arms.
Vietnam: Head transplant volunteers being sought for controversial surgery at Hanoi hospital
Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero hoping to carry out procedure next year.
David Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur: Naturalist to unveil 37m-long titanosaur - the biggest ever to have lived
Attenborough will tell story of the biggest animal to have walked the earth – the titanosaur.
Search for MH370 leads to discovery of 200-year-old shipwreck
Investigators looking for missing flight MH370 stumble on early 19th century shipwreck.
Frozen poo transplants just as effective as fresh ones for C. diff. as faeces pill trialled for obesity
Frozen faecal microbiota transplantation could offer many advantages for Clostridium difficile treatment.
Ancient burial practices shed light on mystery pre-Roman culture that left no written history
Graves in Central Apulian show major cultural shifts between 525BC and 200BC.
Terminator-style self-healing, self-adaptive material created by US scientists
Reversible and self-stiffening material has potential for tissue engineering and defence structures.
Stephen Hawking: Soft hair, black holes and the information paradox
Hawking publishes paper on information stored on the soft hair of black holes.
Melioidosis: 89,000 killed every year by little-known disease as deadly as measles
Melioidosis cases severely underestimated and found in more countries than previously thought.
US labs growing human-animal hybrids for organs amid controversy
MIT Technology Review confirms 20 pregnancies of human-animal hybrids in last 12 months.
Guatemala: Royal tomb of King Bakab K'inich discovered in ruins of Mayan city El Zotz
Royal burial place discovered in Five Temples section of city.
Return to the Moon: ESA to send astronauts to lunar surface before 2030
European Space Agency hoping to 'return humans' to the moon by the end of the 2020s.
Volcano season isn't a real thing and we're 99.9% sure Yellowstone won't erupt in next 80 years
News that Yellowstone supervolcano could erupt within the next century are not accurate.
Cannabis use in teens does not affect their IQ or educational performance
Using cannabis in adolescence does not appear to affect intelligence, study finds.
Search for long-lost White City: Archaeologists dig for treasure in City of the Monkey God in Honduras
Honduras president announces excavations of ancient and legendary White City hidden in jungle.
Interspecies sex with Neanderthals and Denisovans boosted our immune system
Two studies show the important role interbreeding had on human evolution.
Tangosaurus Rex? Sexy dancing dinosaurs performed mating displays to attract the ladies
Scratch marks the size of bath tubs show theropod dinosaurs did mating dances like birds.
Eta Carinae homunculus nebula has five 'death star' twins in other galaxies
Nasa's Spitzer and Hubble telescopes spot five objects similar to Eta Carinae.
What is the MIND diet that helps prevent Alzheimer's and how do you follow it?
MIND diet lowers Alzheimer's risk by 50% and ranks as easiest to follow in report.
NOAA: Stools of endangered orca show they mostly just eat salmon in summer
Understanding diet of an endangered population of killer whales will aid conservation.
Advanced alien civilisations might be living in globular clusters on outskirts of Milky Way
Harvard-Smithsonian astronomers say globular clusters could host intelligent life in Milky Way.
Lemmium: Petition to have new heavy metal on periodic table named after Motorhead rocker Lemmy
Thousands of people sign petition to have newly discovered heavy metal named after recently deceased frontman.
Antidepressants in pregnancy: Paroxetine in first trimester increases risk of birth defects
Review suggests paroxetine can increase the risk of congenital and cardiac malformations.
Australia: Varanid lizards trained to hate the taste of toxic cane toads by feeding them babies
Scientists use aversion training to stop lizards from eating deadly cane toads.
Earliest stegodons came from China, not Africa, 11 million-year-old fossils suggest
Scientists discover bones in China millions of years older than those found in Kenya.
King Kong: It was inflexibility, not Beauty, that killed off Gigantopithecus
Giant ape that stood at 10ft tall went extinct because it could not adapt to diet and habitat changes.
Can you spot three of Saturn's moons in this NASA image from the Cassini spacecraft?
Enceladus, Rhea and Atlas seen in image taken by spacecraft co-owned by NASA, plus European and Italian space agencies.
Boron nitride nanotubes pave way for spacecrafts and fighter planes of future
Scientists discover BNNTs hold potential for lighter aircraft better able to shield space radiation.
Gold nanoparticles used to create stretchy, wearable heart monitor
Ultra-thin heart monitor that sticks to the skin and stretches with it created by scientists.
Swine flu: New H1N1 virus in Chinese pigs has potential to cause global pandemic
Scientists say immediate action must be taken to prevent transmission of new strain of swine flu to humans.
