SCIENCE

A local university is trying to work out why the sharks are there now.

Stone Age human remains discovered at Aubrey Hole 7 in 2008 found to comprise 'around half' belonged to women.

What was Drug Enforcement Administration agent smoking when he groused about hophead rabbits?

Unusual formations of mineral deposits virtually identical to ones formed by life on Earth.

First evidence of lethal fights between female orangutans witnessed by Swiss scientists.

Doctors say Michelangelo suffered from osteoarthritis in the joints of his left hand.

A fossilised relative of the daddy-long-legs has been encased in amber with a very large surprise.

The video shows how magnetic field lines shoot off the powerful star, with some looping back towards the surface.

Angela Merkel invited to switch on first hydrogen plasma marking start of Wendelstein 7-X operation.

Stephen Hawking talks about black holes as part of the BBC's Reith lectures.

New report says the African nation must decide what to do about rapidly growing Asian toad population.

The demonstration was part of an effort to teach school children about space.

It is one of the earliest surviving frescos from Roman Britain.

The turtle washed up on Jersey beach off French coast with shell damage and infections.

The US calls the plans an "egregious violation" of a UN ban on missile launches by the DPRK.

Ravens appear to understand what others see, shedding light on the Theory of Mind.

Archaeologists excavating Abusir South find 18m-long boat beneath tomb of wealthy individual.

Carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater will make fish intoxicated decades before previously thought.

Satellite images of eight wetlands – areas of land that are permanently or seasonally saturated with water.

Archaeologists find evidence of early humans feasting on tortoises at 400,000-year-old site.

Infamous shipwreck from 1936 appears on California beach after El Nino causes very low tide.

The volcano has erupted at least three times since 2000.

Born Free foundation confirmed the finding in the Alatash and Dinder parks.

Two-storey wave like a 'sea monster rising from the ocean' says lucky-to-be-alive surfer.

Interception by the birds could be safest way for people to tackle a terrorist drone.

Hundreds of rare antiquities including classical sculptures and ancient Roman frescoes taken by tomb raiders.

Competition with modern humans, not epidemics or climate change, caused Neanderthal extinction.

Four-year study aiming to become the first to rear and plant coral in the ocean has been successful.

Humans were to blame for the late 2013/early 2014 storms which caused more than 6000 homes to be flooded.