SCIENCE

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.

UK residents will breath a sigh of relief after the Met Office revealed the cold snap would easy over the weekend.

From 'alien' bacteria found on the space station, to mysterious deep space signals detected – these are the best space stories of the week.

The massive iceberg broke off from the Pine Island Glacier in September and was estimated to be the fifth largest calving event since 2000.

Between 1923 and 1927, paleontologists in China discovered several fossils near Beijing. They named it the Peking Man. But the bones disappeared in 1941 and haven't been found yet.

The Amur Leopard is listed as a critically endangered species. There are fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild.

For hundreds of years, long before the arrival of space travel, people have dreamt of reaching the moon

WASP-18b - which is 10 times more massive than Jupiter - has a choking atmosphere consisting of deadly carbon monoxide.

The first-known original Greek copy of the banned Christian writing was discovered in the Nag Hammadi Library at Oxford University by biblical scholars.

Researchers from the agency have found the factor that could have helped in maintaining subsurface water under these worlds.

Korean scientists claim to have developed a new treatment that not only prevents hair loss but also boosts the growth of new follicles.

Mark Rober, a former Nasa engineer, has already earned more than 5.7 million views for his science-based YouTube video.

The archaeological treasure trove also included skeletons of what is believed to be pterosaurs hatchlings and young adults.

The image was composed from Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a couple of ground-based telescopes.