Science
Bug passed from camels may trigger next deadly pandemic
MERS causes a harmless cold in the 'ships of the desert' but leads to severe lung disease in patients - and it is about to become even more contagious because it is developing mutations
Fossil of huge “mammal-like” reptile that roamed Europe over 200 million years ago discovered
The fossil remains overturned established beliefs that the only giant herbivores to roam Triassic lands were dinosaurs
Sinister 2001: A Space Odyssey computer ‘becomes reality’
A real-life robot based on homicidal HAL 9000 - the most terrifying computer in movie history - has been created by scientists
‘Star Trek’ plane with no moving parts takes flight
Using a technology featured in the cult sci-fi fantasy series, scientists say it combats both air - and noise - pollution
One of the earliest of the long necked dinosaurs has been dug up in Brazil
About the size of a car, the new species is a distant cousin of the sauropods, such as Brontosaurus, which grew into the largest terrestrial animals ever to walk the earth
MRI scans ‘predict which people will develop Alzheimer’s’
MRI scans of the brain using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which assess the condition of the brain's white matter, were found to be between 89 and 95 per cent accurate
New study on how MDMA Ecstasy affects judgement makes an interesting discovery
The main ingredient in ecstasy, MDMA releases chemical messengers in the brain that are linked to behaviour and mood.
Earth has ring side seat to watch something truly spectacular
But luckily the blast is not aimed at us otherwise it would strip ozone from the atmosphere
Genetically modified virus that kills cancer cells developed by British scientists
The dual action virus targets cancer cells and healthy cells tricked into protecting the cancer from the immune system