SCIENCE

Typhoon Rammasun will hit the Philippines north of the area devastated by Super Tycoon Haiyan last year.

Scientists explore new frontiers of life in talk at Washington's Nasa headquarters.

A study shows how biologically unrelated friends share genes as opposed to strangers.

The shipwrecked Costa Concordia has been refloated in preparation to be towed away for scrapping.

It seems the selfies fad has spread to the animal kingdom.

Met Office is predicting temperatures to reach 30C on Friday.

Two skeletons from Sahara desert massacre in 11,000 BC to go on display at the British Museum.

Woolly mammoth calves died from suffocation after inhaling mud, scientists find.

British company Surrey NanoSystems has invented Vantablack, the darkest nanotube material ever created.

A nature study shows correlations between high concentrations of neonicotinoids and declining bird populations

Nasa scientist Kevin Hand said the agency will find extraterrestrial life in the next 20 years.

Government plans to open space base by 2018, with the aim of it becoming hub for commercial space travel.

Visitor to national park becomes second person in two days killed by lightning strikes.

Sunday 13 July will be the first of three 'supermoon' nights, in which the moon will appear bigger and brighter than usual. This is caused by the moon's elliptical orbit.

Experts predict recent discoveries and surge in demand will challenge reliance on fossil fuels.

The Indian government's plan to build a radar on an island spells danger for the rare hornbill found there.

Pornography gives sex addicts the same feelings of euphoria as an addict getting high on drugs, say scientists.

Logging, poaching and trafficking of a wide range of animals, illegal fisheries, illegal mining and dumping of toxic waste, adding up to $213bn are financing global terrorist groups.

Millions of barrels of wastewater forced into disposal wells induces earthquakes by raising fluid pressures underground.

Women believe females wearing red are more sexually receptive and belittle them to partners.

Three tonne object that blazed across Australian sky was from the SoyuzST-B carrier rocket.

Musk has made The Oatmeal cartoonist very happy by backing Nikola Tesla museum project.

An autopsy of a 17th century mummy shows that the man suffered from a painful condition during his lifetime.

As instances of human-animal conflict increase the country has decided to issue legal hunting permits to cull its desert elephants.

US researchers show chimpanzees' intelligence based on IQ is determined by their genes.

Burst of radio waves provides new evidence of pulses coming from outer space.

Data collected recently shows a weakening in Earth's magnetic field which is believed to be an indicator of a quickening of the field flip which happens in a few thousand years.

Failure to limit global warming to two degrees by 2050 will result in catastrophic and irreversible impact on climate.

July full moon to come close to Earth making it appear brighter and bigger than normal.