The two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed Australia during the Cretaceous period - 98 million years ago

El Niño, that meteorological trickster with the deceptively innocent name, wreaks havoc on the world's weather.

You might call it "CSI Ancient Greece". A computer technique can tell the difference between ancient inscriptions created by different artisans, a feat that ordinarily consumes years of human scholarship.

When Anders Åhlén, a detective superintendent at the Stockholm police, was about to move out from his office, he discovered a bag covered with dust. When he opened it he found a treasure that had been lost for 25 years.

When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like. The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago.

The energy system of the future is being founded now. New energy systems and technologies are growing on an accelerating curve: o Buildings that are green, super-efficient and fully managed by digital technologies have become economically competitive.

Vegans have lower bone densities than non-vegans, say Australian researchers. But the news isn't all bad, with the study finding an animal-free diet doesn't translate into more fractures.

Seven thousand years ago, about 100 km from the contemporary port city of Arica in Chile, a child died. The grieving parents did not want to part with the last remains. They removed the head and internal organs of the child, stuffed it with animal hide

Sea urchins are small and spiny, they have no eyes and they eat kelp and algae. Still, the sea creature's genome is remarkably similar to humans' and may hold the key to preventing and curing several human diseases, according to a University of .....

An infant chimpanzee seized in Africa for the US Air Force in the 1950s, Marty was recruited into the military's air and space research program, paving the way for America's first manned spaceflight in 1961 and, ultimately, the Apollo 11 moon landing.