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The Al-Qaida-held city of Mukalla has been battered by the cyclone since it made landfall in a country currently in the midst of civil war

AN ARGUMENT often advanced for the encouragement of religion is that, to paraphrase St Matthew's report of Jesus's words, it leads people to love their neighbours as themselves. That would be a powerful point were it tru...

A four-legged robot with serious athletic endurance recently walked its way right into the history books.

To fight global warming, wealthy nations need to actually ask poor nations what they need.

Materials that actively repel water and ice very strongly are sought after by the aviation industry and for many other technical applications. ETH researchers have now found out how to specifically design the rigid surfa...

Peering at the debris from particle collisions that recreate the conditions of the very early universe, scientists have for the first time measured the force of interaction between pairs of antiprotons. Like the force th...

Nice outfit, dear HOW the peacock got his tail is one of natural history's "Just So" stories that biologists like to think they have cracked. His tail is for showing off to the ladies just how fit he and his genes are. A...

Alcohol, drug addiction and financial anxiety are among factors to blame for an increase in death rates among white, non-Hispanic US people aged 45 to 54

Jupiter's icy moon is a favourite of alien-hunters, thanks to its buried ocean. Now it seems the ocean could come to the surface - and it might be life friendly

Coal-free, low-emission, high growth. That could be the future of the currently resource-dependent Australia, as long as politicians take action

The Red Planet's gravity is slowly shredding its largest moon, which is already a rubble pile with a thin shell of dust

Scientist show that widespread activity occurs in the brain even during unconscious processing - which shouldn't happen if our theories of consciousness are correct

Dwarf galaxy observations dash astronomers' hopes that the signal at the centre of the Milky Way was caused by dark matter particles colliding

The fate of the world's heaviest parrot depends on a berry from an unreliable tree. Now conservationists have finally come up a replacement

Variations in the brightness of a planet drifting alone in space could come from clouds of molten metal passing in and out of view as it spins

A peculiar Spanish fossil from 11.6 million years ago suggests that the ancestor of all apes might have been more like gibbons and less like great apes

Move over Columbo. By studying courtroom videos, a computer has learned to detect the facial expressions of liars so well it can beat the best interrogators

Flight recorder of the plane that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people has yet to be analysed, but a tracking website may have captured its last moments

NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its deepest dive ever through the spray of ice, vapour and salt erupting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus - and took incredible photos in the process

Lacking an immune system means it's a struggle to recognise certain smells - if you're a mouse. And it could be to stop you sniffing out danger

Last week the space agency held its first meeting about where to land humans on Mars, but such a mission still has decades of technological hurdles to overcome

Google has fitted its Street View cars with sensors to make pollution maps that could be a lifesaver for people who suffer from asthma or other conditions