Ancient black hole had an inexplicable growth spurt
Reaching 12 billion times the mass of the sun just a billion years after the big bang, a black hole has astronomers mystified about its rapid growth
First human head transplant could happen in two years
A radical plan for transplanting a head onto someone else鈥檚 body is set to be announced. But is such ethically sensitive surgery even feasible?
Watch desert dust cross the ocean as seen from space
For the first time, a satellite has calculated the whopping amount of Saharan dust that is blown over the ocean to reach the Amazon rainforest every year
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Climate change sceptic鈥檚 work called into question
Wei-Hock 鈥淲illie鈥� Soon failed to disclose funding from the fossil fuel industry, says Greenpeace, as journals get ready to re-examine his work
Indians lose billions of life years to air pollution
Over half of India鈥檚 population lives in areas with dangerous levels of air pollution. Now that has been translated into years of life lost overall
Men have hands amputated and replaced with bionic ones
Three people with paralysed arms had their hands amputated and replaced by prosthetic ones that they control with their mind
I鈥檒l fly around the world using only solar power
Adventurer and aeronaut Bertrand Piccard is poised to take to the skies in a sun-powered plane that鈥檚 wider than a 747 but only as heavy as a family car
The plan to find alien life in Europa鈥檚 icy seas
We鈥檙e getting ready to send a probe to Jupiter鈥檚 icy moon 鈥� but how will we know if anything lives there?
Stunning fossils: Fish catches fish-catching pterosaur
The swooping pterosaur snatched a fish from the water, only to be caught by a much bigger fish leaping into the air
