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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...

A video feed encoded as sound can be intuitively understood by blind people for navigation, exploiting the way we unconsciously integrate sensory information

A device developed to monitor US military pilots looks at biomarkers in breath to spot the first signs of hypoxia, allowing action to be taken earlier

Working out your chances of conceiving using IVF just got more accurate thanks to a model that takes into account modern techniques and the latest research

The figures in a new UN report show that limiting global warming to 2 °C is now nigh on impossible

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

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

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

The UK and US police forces are starting to run their own scientific trials to make sure their actions are based on evidence, not just experience

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

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

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

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