WFIRST: Nasa telescope 100 times bigger than Hubble will search for dark matter, alien worlds
The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will search for dark matter and planets outside our solar system.
5,000-year-old Egyptian Tarkhan dress declared world's oldest woven garment
The dress was excavated at Tarkhan, an ancient Egyptian cemetery dating back to 3,000BC, in 1913.
Archaeologists hail 'unprecedented' Bronze Age wheel find in Cambridgeshire
Perfectly preserved 3,000-year-old wooden wheel unearthed in Whittlesey, East Anglia.
North Korea: Fears Kim Jong-un's nuclear tests will trigger Mount Paektu volcano to erupt
Several earthquakes have been recorded at the volcano over the last decade.
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World Press photo of the year: Syria conflict and refugee crisis dominate awards
A moonlit image of refugees crossing the border from Serbia into Hungary has been selected as the World Press photo of the year.
David Sim Feb 18, 2016
Hairy panic: Giant tumbleweed engulfs remote Australian town Wangaratta
Two-metre high tumbleweed or hairy panic takes over homes, shops and cars in Wangaratta.
Hannah Osborne Feb 18, 2016
Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak appeals to public to help find ancient sites on satellite images
Amateur sleuths can scan the Earth from their computers or phone apps in scientific hunt for ruins.
Mary Papenfuss Feb 18, 2016
7,000-year-old settlement discovered in Jerusalem indicates advanced livelihood of prehistoric humans
The finds are suggestive of a well-advanced settlement in Jerusalem in prehistoric times.
Sanskrity Sinha Feb 18, 2016
Atheism thrived in ancient world: Humans not 'wired' for religion
Cambridge Professor says atheism dates back beyond Ancient Greece and Rome.
Hannah Osborne Feb 17, 2016
Siberian Neanderthals were having sex with modern humans 35,000 years earlier than thought
Neanderthals and early modern humans met and interbred 100,000 years ago in Levant.
Hannah Osborne Feb 17, 2016
Cameras captures rare gyrfalcon, the largest falcon in the world, in Canada
The white gyrfalcon was photographed by an observation tower.
Adam Justice Feb 17, 2016
Turkey: Riot police fire tear gas as 3,000 protesters oppose gold and copper mine
Locals are worried that the new mine will ruin the Cerattepe
Alex Wheeler Feb 17, 2016
Antarctica is sitting on a layer of meteorites from the very beginning of our solar system
The sun warms iron-rich meteorites, burying them away as they melt the icy surface... and away from scientists.
Matt Atherton Feb 16, 2016
Tardigrade survival: Water bears frozen in Antarctic moss for 30 years successfully revived
Tardigrades frozen in moss for three decades have been revived and were able to reproduce.
Hannah Osborne Feb 16, 2016
China: 9,000 locals evacuated as plans for alien-detecting FAST telescope get green light
Chinese authorities to pay residents 12,000 yuan to move from the site of world's largest radio telescope
Hannah Osborne Feb 16, 2016
Grasslands need four times more phosphorus by 2050 if booming global population is to be fed
24 megatonnes of phosphorus needs to be added to grasslands every year.
Matt Atherton Feb 16, 2016
Easter Island: Prehistoric warfare did not bring about collapse of Rapa Nui population
Artefacts found on Easter Island were not spears of war, but tools used by the early civilisation.
Hannah Osborne Feb 16, 2016
Giant sea monster washed up on Australian beach identified as pike eel
Locals were 'unnerved' before experts confirmed that the species was an old pike eel.
Matt Atherton Feb 16, 2016
What would happen if Earth fell into a black hole?
If you stray too close to a black hole, then you will stretch out, just like spaghetti.
Kevin Pimbblet Feb 16, 2016
Byzantine era Greek pithos weighing 300kg discovered in Black Sea
The pithos weighs 300kg and is 1.5m long. It is believed to date back to the fourth century Byzantine Empire.
Sanskrity Sinha Feb 16, 2016
Australia's 'marsupial lion' was a tree climber
Fearsome predator Thylacoleo carnifex lived in Australia over 40,000 years ago.
Karthick Arvinth Feb 16, 2016
More sizzling news: January 2016 hottest ever recorded
After hottest year ever, scorching first month of 2016 racks up scary biggest anomaly from norm
Mary Papenfuss Feb 16, 2016
Cannibalism fears derail octopus sex show in Seattle Aquarium
Handlers worried Pacific octopus Kong would eat his mate for the big finale
Mary Papenfuss Feb 16, 2016
Strychnos electri: Flower species from deadly genus discovered trapped in amber for 15 million years
The species discovered in the Dominican Republic is the first Neotropical species to be found in amber.
Matt Atherton Feb 15, 2016
God of the underworld microbes Hadesarchaea discovered living on toxic gas deep below Yellowstone hot springs
The species was found in the harsh conditions of Yellowstone hot springs and lives several miles underground.
Matt Atherton Feb 15, 2016
Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan: Bankers are dinosaurs and hipsters will grow tails
Zoltan Istvan is the founder of the Transhumanist Party and its 2016 Presidential candidate.
Ian Allison Feb 15, 2016
Meti president Douglas Vakoch: Sending messages to aliens is not dangerous and we could make contact by 2035
Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence to hold conference on communicating with aliens in May.
Hannah Osborne Feb 15, 2016
The hunt for dark matter: How scientists are edging closer to finding mystery particles
Underground dark matter experiment means there is a good chance we 'see something' by 2019.
Hannah Osborne Feb 15, 2016
Secrets of 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy portraits revealed through forensic technology
Study used high-tech analysis on Egyptian paintings to identify the exact colours used by the artists.
Matt Atherton Feb 15, 2016
Male elephant spurned by would-be lover takes it out on 15 cars parked at wildlife reserve in China
Lovelorn pachyderm gets too up close and personal with the vehicles.
Mary Papenfuss Feb 15, 2016
GPS gets accurate up to an inch with this new technique
Researchers could attain better accuracy of position by reformulating a series of equations.
A Prasad Feb 15, 2016
British scientists designing cement to safely store nuclear waste for 100,000 years
Two-year experiment finds cement which could be used to safely store radioactive in underground facility.
Ewan Palmer Feb 14, 2016
AI: Machines will be able to do almost any job by 2045 – so what will become of humans?
Scientists says society must confront idea we will not be needed for labour before it happens.
Hannah Osborne Feb 13, 2016
150,000 penguins perish after massive iceberg leaves colony landlocked in Antarctica
A population of 160,000 Adelie penguins has dwindled to just 10,000 in Cape Denison on Commonwealth Bay
William Watkinson Feb 13, 2016
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