Science
New species of pterodactyl dinosaur size of a small plane has been discovered
Nicknamed the frozen dragon of the north, the 75 million year old fossil is new to science.
Which testicle is warmer and why wombats poo cubes: this year’s Ig Nobel science prizes
The Ig Nobel awards, which celebrate weird, odd and head-scratching scientific discoveries, were handed out at an annual ceremony this week.
This half-a-billion-year-old vicious predator is the earliest known ancestor of spiders
Palaeontologists working on the Burgess Shale fossil-bearing deposit in the Canadian Rockies discovered the new species, called Mollisonia plenovenatrix
Water vapour detected in atmosphere of habitable ‘super-Earth’ planet by British astronomers
K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the solar system known to have both water and temperatures that could support life
Medics restart baby’s heart after dunking her in bucket of icy water
Specialists saved Holly Hutchinson using a different technique after he heart became infected.
Planets orbiting distant stars outside our solar system are potentially more habitable than Earth
They may have an even greater variety of life - harbouring weird and wonderful aliens beyond our wildest imagination.
World’s oldest eyes found in insect that buzzed around Denmark 54 million years ago
They belonged to a primitive crane fly and contained eumelin - a natural pigment found in human peepers
Scientists believe there may be life on the Moon after Israeli spacecraft crash
The unmanned Israeli spacecraft the Beresheet was carrying a few thousand tiny tardigrades, supposedly the hardiest creatures on Earth, when it lost control and crashed on the Moon.
New 3D map of Milky Way suggests it is warped and twisted
Our galaxy is not as flat as previously believed.