New Pluto pics show weird terrain shaped by alien ‘water’ cycle
The latest downloads from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show a hazy nitrogen atmosphere backlit by the setting sun – and a landscape bizarrely resembling Earth
Cosmonauts are stars of the Soviet space age show
As Russia's most treasured space-age artefacts are unveiled at the Science Museum in London, Mick O'Hare relives the glory days of the race for space
Giraffes spend their evenings humming to each other
Biologists have long been curious to know whether giraffes produce any substantial sounds. Audio recordings from three giraffe houses in European zoos suggest they do
Patent for first method to create human sperm, but does it work?
French scientists say that they have a method for growing sperm from extracted testicular tissue, but they have yet to publish their results
Huge Chile quake was brewing for 5 years and more are expected
Magnitude 8.3 earthquake that hit Chile was partly due to a massive nearby quake in 2010 and does not relieve the risk of an even larger earthquake
Global study reveals soaring antibiotic resistance in India
Antibiotic resistance rates are so high in some regions that new drugs may not work unless misuse of antibiotics stops, say researchers
New look at antidepressant suicide risks from infamous trial
A fresh analysis of an infamous 1990s study has raised the rate of suicidal tendencies among teenagers given paroxetine
NASA spacecraft captures rare double eclipse of the sun
First the Earth and then the moon recently blocked the sun's light from the point of view of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
Moonquakes discovered in data from 1970s Apollo mission
An algorithm based on speech recognition software has dug up hundreds of tremors on the moon that were missed by earlier searches
Pluto dazzles in first new images downloaded since July’s flyby
The New Horizons spacecraft has sent back fresh, stunning photos that it took of the distant icy world when it flew past on 14 July
