Science

It offers hope of patients paralysed after a stroke or accident communicating with friends and loved ones - despite being unable to speak

About the size of a pheasant, Anchiornis roamed China 10 million years before Archaeopteryx - the first recognised bird

Astronomers at Durham University used the huge amounts of radiation supermassive blackholes emit as "beacons" to track the expansion of the early universe

The discovery of a 'superbug gene' on a remote Arctic island less than three years after it was first detected 8,000 miles away in India has sparked new warnings of a global health crisis

It was a poor swimmer, had bad eye sight and relied on touch from its cartilaginous bill to find its prey in murky shallows

Researchers say most of Earth's essential elements for life - including most of the carbon and nitrogen in us - probably came from another planet

And shift works imapcts their unbornms from the earliest stages of gestation

Whether you’ve got more junk on the trunk or a little bit of jiggle round the middle, where you store fat is determined by your genes

The ice is melting quicker than scientists previously thought - and they say it will likely lead to faster sea level rises, due to the continued, accelerating warming of the Earth's atmosphere