Science

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider scientists have discovered two new subatomic particles each made from three quarks bound together by the strong force. They were predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.

Researchers have uncovered amazing details about the life of a woolly mammoth after its preserved body was found frozen in the snowy wastes of Siberia. The good condition of the ancient animal has even raised hopes it could be cloned and the team were able to use carbon dating techniques to reveal it had walked the earth around 40,000 years …

The polar bear population in the southern Beaufort Sea — considered one of the populations most vulnerable to reductions in Arctic sea ice — dropped by roughly 40 percent between 2001 and 2010, according to a new study by U.S. and Canadian scientists.

The way to stop man-eating great white sharks attacking humans is by tickling their sensitive noses electronically, researchers in South Africa say.

Scientists in Denmark say they’ve discovered two extraordinary sets of human footprints dating back 5,000 years. The first of their kind to be found in Denmark, the footprints may shed light on what life was like for coastal people during the Stone Age.

The Philae comet lander has gone to sleep after running out of battery at the end of a historic mission that ended in triumph with a slew of data from the comet.

An ancient Ice Age burial ground for infants discovered by archaeologists in Alaska has provided information about the first inhabitants of North America.

Unicorns may only exist in fairy tales, but a deer with a single antler must have looked pretty convincing from a distance. The roe deer had a rare antler deformity that caused it to have a single cone-shaped bone protruding from the centre of its head.

A study involving chimpanzees from Tanzania has shown that aggressive male chimps that attack female chimpanzees have a greater chance of impregnating them. Ian Gilby, one of the researchers, said the findings do not convey a happy message.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) robotic probe Philae, which landed on a comet Wednesday, is stable after falling into trouble initially, media reported Thursday. The lander scored an historic first on Wednesday when it touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a decade-long journey through space on its mother ship Rosetta.

Obviously fed up of all eyes in the Solar System being on that damned comet, Uranus has been kicking off with some extreme storms. It’s very unlike the milky-green gas giant, whose surface is usually rather bland.