SCIENCE

University of Texas scientists are working on a drone that can be controlled by brain waves

Neurons in human skin can process geometric data about the object it is touching.

A huge blob of gas and dust in the shape of a spider has been captured by ESO's telescope in Chile.

Small asteroid to come within 25,000 miles of Earth – a tenth of the distance to the Moon.

The number of seals increased from 685 to 938 in the Greater Thames Estuary

British scientists given access to North Korea volcano Mount Paektu.

Attenborough says nature reserves and parks are not enough to save devastating wildlife losses.

Japan is launching a new space probe to mine the asteroid 1999 JU3

Switzerland investigating threat of lake tsunamis to 13 million people living near Lake Lucerne.

Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 hit northern rim of the Bardarbunga caldera in Iceland on 3 September

The Lego board is now reviewing a designer's concept to make NASA's famous telescope into a collectors' toy

Researchers engineer renewable propane from harmless bacteria E.coli.

Using photon pairs, a team has produced results that show time travel is possible, at least for quantum particles, and does not alter identities.

Species extinctions have gone up by 1,000 times of what they were without humans around.

Goffin's cockatoos can make and use wooden tools by learning from each other.

Ash would blanket most of the US, disrupting crop producing and causing widespread respiratory problems.

A fissure eruption near Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano continues to erupt as it spouts lava.

Antarctic sea level rising faster than average global rate, study finds.

In unexpected results, a study says the earth's continental plates are moving faster than in the past 2 billion years.

WRI says that arid locations are home to 38% of world's shale energy.

Cave art which has been dated back to the Neanderthals suggests the species was capable of complex and abstract thought.

The five geckos sent to space to study sexual mating under weightless conditions have returned dead. Their death will now be investigated by the Russian space agency.

State Environment Secretary says it will take two more days to remove the dead fish.

Archaeologists confirm that Stonehenge, one of the world's wonders, was once a complete circle.

Magnetic resonance relaxometry is used to find parasites' waste in infected blood

Animal Defenders International has called to end the use of primates in medical research experiments

Radio astronomy measurements place constellations of Seven Sisters at greater distance than satellite data did.

Tax breaks mostly help domestic manufacturers of 'new energy' cars as China pushes reforms.

A study has come up with a global road map by balancing development needs and environment conservation.