• Your oldest ancestor was really weird

    Don't take this the wrong way, but your oldest ancestor was not exactly a beauty. Scientists on Monday said a tiny marine creature from China that wriggled in the seabed mud about 540 million years ago may be the earliest-known animal in the lengthy evolutionary path that eventually led to humans. It was a weird-looking beastie with a bag-like body and, for its size, a really big mouth.

  • New organ

    New organ discovered inside human belly

    Irish researchers confirm that the mesentery — a fold of membrane that connects the intestine to the abdomen — is its own continuous organ, and not a series of fragmented parts like experts had previously thought, reports Yahoo News.

  • 2016: The good things in science, environment

    Wars, Trump, celebrity deaths and natural disasters and the coming of age of 90s kids all have lent to 2016’s overall gloom. This year has not been kind to many people and has left a lingering bitter taste in our mouths. However, 2016 was not all bad and to make remembering this year a little less cringe worthy, we have rounded up all the best developments in science, technology and environment:

  • Nasa's Mars rover finds new clues about life on the Red Planet

    Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity finds evidence of ancient lakes and wet underground environments on the Red Planet that changed billions of years ago.

  • UK first country to legally offer 'three-parent' gene therapy

    Britain's fertility regulator gives the green light for the country to become the first in the world to legally offer "three-parent baby" fertility treatments.

  • Puffer fish,poisoning,six people die,Jaintapur upazila,Sylhet,Potka fish,health warning,Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital

    Puffer: Not just a fish

    If you have never tried this swollen but decent looking fish yet, probably you are lucky enough and would better stay away from it!

  • Human ancestor 'Lucy' adept at tree climbing as well as walking

    Scientists using sophisticated scanning technology on the fossil bones of the ancient human ancestor from Ethiopia dubbed "Lucy" have determined that she was adept at climbing trees as well as walking, an ability that in her case may have proven fatal.

  • Google celebrates birthday of J C Bose

    Google is celebrating the 158th birthday of Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, one of the fathers of radio science, with a doodle which shows him sitting in his laboratory.

  • Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed last month,a sensor failure,European Space Agency,ESA, error stemmed from a momentary glitch

    Navigation system failure cited in crash of European Mars lander

    Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed last month after a sensor failure caused it to cast away its parachute and turn off braking thrusters more than two miles (3.7 km) above the surface of the planet, as if it had already landed, a report says.

  • Huge underground deposit of ice found on Mars

    A giant deposit of buried ice on Mars contains about as much water as Lake Superior of French, a new study reveals.