USA: Referring to “this ridiculously stupid winter”, the Ithaca website suggests visiting the Florida Keys this week and returning “when things thaw out.”

A new chapter in the story of Anne Boleyn worthy of an episode of Wolf Hall has been unveiled, thanks to facial recognition technology. Henry VIII’s attempt to erase his second wife from history after chopping off her head may have been thwarted after more than 470 years.

A leading American climate scientist has said he felt “scared” when a shadowy organisation claiming to represent the CIA asked him about the possibility of weaponised weather.

Print out your treasured photos or risk losing them as digital technology could turn the 21st century into a new dark age lost to history, a leading internet pioneer has warned.

Stephen Hawking has warned against plans to beam radio messages to possible alien civilisations on distant planets. A number of scientists have supported Messages to Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

People are changing Earth so much, warming and polluting it, that many scientists are turning to a new way to describe the time we live in.

Genes play a large part in determining the sexual orientation of men, scientists have shown.

When dead sea mammals started washing ashore on Canada’s west coast in greater numbers, marine biologist Andrew Trites was distressed to find domestic animal diseases were killing them.

Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal is famous for his scientific approach to cooking.

Everything you know about dieting is wrong, say US scientists who have devised a new formula for calculating calories and weight loss that they hope will change the way people tackle obesity.

A team of Texan scientists has studied the much-criticised ‘fracking’ method of extracting natural gases, writes John von Radowitz

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.

THOUGH replacing one profoundly conservative, middle of the road, Christian democrat, pro-business political party with another, as we will this week, may represent a shift of the tectonic plates in terms of domestic politics it hardly even registers as change when compared with the great upheavals around the world.

STUTTERING mice with a “squeak defect” version of the affliction suffered by King George VI are being bred by scientists.

The US government may resume funding of embryonic stem cell research for now, an appeals court said, but the short-term approval may be of little help to research scientists caught in a legal battle that has just begun.

A GLOBAL mass-population screening programme could rid the world of the scourge of Aids within 40 years, it was claimed.

American scientists have created prostate cancer in the laboratory by genetically altering human stem cells.

FEWER great white sharks are left in the oceans than there are tigers surviving on Earth, it was claimed yesterday.

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said the government is partly responsible for the tainted milk scandal that has been blamed in the deaths of four babies and shaken consumer confidence, in a rare admission for a Chinese leader.

PLANETS as large, or bigger, than the Earth are waiting to be discovered at the edge of the solar system, scientists believe.

Elan Corporation today announced a number of changes to its board of directors.

A VANISHING glacier in the Andes has provided one of the strongest signals so far that global warming is underway and changing the Earth’s climate, a leading scientist warned yesterday.

Scientists at a large annual gathering rallied in support of evolution, speaking out against what they call an assault on science from religious conservatives.

If bird flu makes the feared leap to human-to-human transmission, it is likely to grow far less deadly, researchers have said.

FIVE nearby stars have been chosen as the best places to look for alien civilisations.

The ivory-billed woodpecker, once prized for its plumage and sought by American Indians as magical, was thought to be extinct for years. Now it’s been sighted again, and conservationists are exulting.

STRICT vegetarians who insist their children live by the maxim “meat is murder” are doing them permanent damage, a leading nutrition expert said yesterday.

Scientists have cracked the ultimate mystery and discovered the true nature of the universe ... in a champagne bottle.

NEW forms of HRT could provide safe treatments for postmenopausal women in the future, a team of researchers said yesterday.

Three young mules who are the first members of the horse family to be cloned are all healthy, normal and energetically enjoying life, say researchers who put them on display in Seattle.

Microsoft boss Bill Gates’ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $82.9m (€54.6m) – the largest grant awarded for the development of a tuberculosis vaccine – to the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation.

Alien astronomers on planets in other star systems almost certainly have the Earth listed as a world teeming with life, a leading scientist claims.

A new eye in the sky is helping scientists spot infant hurricanes hiding beneath cloaks of clouds.

The white ice on top of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro may have completely disappeared in 14 years, according to an American scientist.