SCIENCE

Thousands of people have been evacuated as the Thomas Fire threatens Santa Paula and Ventura, destroying homes and vehicles in its path.

Beach-goers on the Fylde coast are warned not to let their dogs eat a bright-yellow substance that has contaminated the land.

Being given fewer toys at once meant toddlers played with higher quality and for longer with each toy, research from the University of Toledo has found.

A 250-metre cave network dating back to the Ice Age has been discovered underneath a residential area of Montreal by two amateur explorers.

The first cub to be born in France startled the first lady by growling at her during the panda's naming ceremony.

The tech, dubbed "take me home", would essentially add self-return capabilities to the spacesuit, bringing the astronaut back to a safe point.

27 statues of varying sizes have been unearthed and are being restored by the King Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project.

Meteorites allowed Bronze Age metal workers to create iron tools before humans were able to smelt iron and create tools.

Carbon-dioxide can be trapped away by these new plants that Breakthrough Prize winning biologist Joanne Chory has created in her lab.

Winners of the third Royal Society Publishing photography competition, which celebrates the power of images to communicate science.

The video, dubbed "Transient", was recorded with the help of a Phantom Flex 4K camera.

Massive gas clouds made of hydrogen and other materials from within and outside the Milky Way have been mapped in detail.

Using ground penetrating radar, an archaeologist believes the area which is also near Fort Negley will contain a "high likelihood of human remains".

Producing and transporting food to households affects environment with 20-30% global greenhouse gas emissions.

WWF has tagged Amazon river dolphins in order to understand how they live, move, and how human-made threats like gold mining affect their health.

The human brain is able to 'predict' what your eyes will see before you look, and for the first time a team of scientists from the University of Glasgow have shown how it works.

A wall dating back to the Middle Ages including 7 well-preserved turrets have been found in a small town in Spain, 50km from Madrid.

Global warming is likely to cause a sharp spike in air turbulence in the future, causing flights to get bumpy and uncomfortable.

The hidden message was discovered in the hollowed-out butt of a statue of Jesus from the church of Santa Águeda in Sotillo de la Ribera in Spain.

This galaxy cluster is several thousands of times larger than the Milky Way, containing thousands of individual galaxies, packed up close.

"By morning he'll have taken credit for the supermoon," one Twitter user joked.

The raging debate of whether sea sponges or comb jellies kicked off animal life has been settled using statistics.

Apart from differences caused by geography and origin, most languages follow a common pattern because they need to be simple, yet effective.

The countries involved have agreed that before fishing takes place, they will establish appropriate measures for conservation and management.

The image was taken from a distance of 18,000km above the surface of these clouds.

Nasa fired the dormant Voyager 1's thrusters for the first time since 1980.

After saying he will be launching a car into space, Elon Musk then said he was not going to. But sources later confirmed the news that there is going to be a Tesla Roadster aboard the Falcon Heavy.

Signals of changes in Earth's gravitational field reach seismic monitoring stations minutes earlier and could make a big difference in saving lives.

Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the first ever human-to-human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky on 3 December 1967.