SCIENCE

California mountains pushed up 15mm because of severe drought across western US.

NGO says testing should not be done near ice shelves.

Researchers have figured out how to electronically manipulate the muscles in moths.

Study finds there was a long period of overlap between Neanderthals and humans.

ISS astronaut Reid Wiseman captured northern light display above North America.

Atleast 17 people have been mauled to death by tigers in India in 2014 itself.

The 300 mirrors harvesting solar power in California are a death trap for birds flying overhead.

Scientists find active ecosystem 1.5 miles below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Bonaparte, a Netherlands Forensic Institute robot system, is comparing DNA profiles from the remains.

San Diego State University researchers are first to sequence DNA at sea in Pacific Ocean

As the drought continues for a third year, water levels in lakes and reservoirs reach historic lows.

Pause in global warming since 1998 is due to climate fluctuations and weak solar irradiance, study finds

Iceland officials raise alert to second highest level after seismic activity at Bardarbunga.

A month's worth of rain in one night triggers landslides in the outskirts of Hiroshima, Japan.

Policeman from Gauteng arrested for attempted rhino poaching.

Japan has sent Hello Kitty into space for her 40th Anniversary

Earth Overshoot Day marks date human resource demands exceed nature's annual budget.

Research finds a new set of genes involved in sex determination.

King's College London researchers say a child's drawings are insight into intelligence at age of 14.

More than 2,000 earthquakes have hit the Bardarbunga volcano since Saturday, causing magma to shift.

The Dark Energy Survey begins its second year of scanning the skies for signs of dark energy, the stuff making up almost 70% of our universe.

Bizarre fossil with legs, spikes and tail-like head finds its place in Tree of Life.

At least seven of the particles collected by the Stardust probe seem to have originated in the dust of distant star deaths.

Belgian organisation Apopo trains African rats to detect TB.

High winds, rain and even frost predicted in parts of England and Scotland this week

UFO-spotter claims video footage shows an alien structure on the Moon - but experts are skeptical.

Egrets, swans and copious amounts of wine were part of king's diet, reveal bone tests.

At least 77 dead and 1,500 stranded after landslides and Monsoon rains batter Nepal and northern India.

Dozens of villages flooded in Bihar, northern India, after rivers breach their embankments.