Science

Several kayakers off the California coast narrowly escaped disaster after a Great White shark attack.

DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon’s Paisley Caves is the oldest found in the New World, dating to 14,300 years ago. University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis Jenkins led excavations that turned up the fossilised human faeces – known as coprolites – that were radiocarbon dated, proving their age.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which keeps a tab on the sun 24 hours a day, has observed a snaking, extended filament of solar material on the front portion of the sun, NASA said in a statement. The observatory examined the massive filament for several days as it rotated around with the sun, NASA reported. The filament is so …

On Wednesday, California and several other western states will witness a total lunar eclipse, the last eclipse in 2014. The eclipse will be visible with the naked eye. It will start at 1:15 a.m. and end at 6:33 a.m. Pacific time.

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been closing in on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and is now orbiting at a distance of only 16 miles. This time, the Philae lander was able to grab several images of what appear to be jets blasting out of the chunks of rock that make up the comet’s neck, according to a statement from the …

The plan to build to build the next generation of space taxis to take astronauts to the International Space Station has hit a big bump in the road. After rewarding Boeing and SpaceX with the contracts to build the spacecrafts NASA is now asking the companies to stop their work on the project.

Scientists from the University of Southern Denmark have synthesized crystalline materials that can bind and store oxygen in high concentrations. The stored oxygen can be released again when and where it is needed.

Researchers may have created the very first solar battery. Scientists have succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device, which could be huge in terms of renewable energy capture and storage.

Plummeting cheetah numbers may be down to humans making them travel further to find their prey, researchers have suggested.

Back in 1937, an Italian physicist predicted the existence of a single, stable particle that could be both matter and antimatter. Nearly 80 years later, a Princeton University research team has actually found it.

Experts say a mysterious ball of light over Montreal last night was not a meteor, raising questions about what that ball of light could be.