SCIENCE

Drivers were trapped in cars and homeowners confined to attics as water levels rose in flash flooding.

Clare Theresa Crockett was based in Playa Prieta where she was teaching children.

Dinosaur species were going extinct faster than new ones were emerging long before mass extinction asteroid.

The video, released by the WWF, shows two of the continent's most endangered predators.

Footage reveals fault lines that triggered the two massive earthquakes, on 14 and 16 April.

Coral's natural ability to withstand temperature change could be destroyed as seawater temperature rises.

Mice embryos in China's SJ-10 satellite found to develop into advanced blastocysts over four days.

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake has been described as the worst the country has seen since 1979.

Stan and Olli, the gay male King penguins, will be called Kalle and Grobi in Hamburg zoo.

The move is part of an initiative called Generation Beyond, which is aimed at educating middle school students.

Fears of unrest grow as authorities in Manabi province announced 180 prisoners escaped from a jail.

Golden eagles are a relatively common sight over Scotland, but there are now none in English skies.

Enormous Roman complex discovered by rug designer laying electric cables in his barn.

State of emergency has been declared in Soriano after a tornado strikes near the Argentinian border

The fountains in Trafalgar Sure in London's West End are set to glow red on Sunday 17 April to raise awareness for World Haemophilia Day.

We could hide from any alien civilisations with lasers, but they might have the same idea too.

North Korean and Western scientists collaborate on study of DPRK's little-studied active volcano.

A Florida man captured the grisly scene on camera while out for a walk.

Aftershocks continue to rattle country after an earthquake killed nine people and injured more than 1,000.

Fears of Fukushima-like damage to nearby nuclear reactor dispelled by Japan authorities.

Painting by Tomasso Assan Paleologo in San Giovanni Maggiore Basilica damaged by absent-minded renovators.

Elusive 'wonder material' takes graphene's title as the strongest substance ever made.

Ocean bacteria and algae survived the asteroid strike, supplying ocean-dwelling creatures with food.

The holiday rental site selected different sets of winners, who stayed one night each in the underwater bedroom.

Greenland doubled its rate of ice loss form 2003 to 2010.

Bed bugs which resist exposure to pesticides tend to have thicker cuticles.

Warmer summers give shrubs longer growing seasons, so more food is available for moose in the cold winters.

Lake District Biogas plant will covert fats and sugars from cheese production into gas energy for local homes.

Researchers have found a giant stone ball in a forest, and claim an ancient civilisation left it behind.