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Health leaders need global strategy for spotting disease threats.

Decline in oceans' ability to store carbon partly to blame, study suggests.

Study reveals valuable store of ancient DNA in museum samples.

Study suggests demise did not coincide with climate cooling.

Ape-like wrists suggest that Homo floresiensiswas a distinct species.

Ghana centre will train plant breeders on their own turf.

Genetic variant can add nearly a centimetre to your stature.

Sequences linked to brain disorder show hallmarks of natural selection.

Human-animal embryos given green light after public backing.

Homo erectushad an unexpected neighbour, and a surprising lifestyle too.

Fearsome fish have protruding jaws in their throats to grab prey.

Super-sized animals may pave way for new drugs and bigger livestock.

Camera trickery shows how easy it is to fool the mind.

Apes distract themselves with play to resist temptation.

Vintage sequence could lead to improved pest resistance and new wine flavours.

Plants suffering in the heat could make global warming worse.

Astronomers enlist Internet users to unravel mysteries of galactic birth.

Mouse study spots protein that generates fuel-burning tissue.

Screening embryos might do more harm than good.

Technique raises hopes for infertile men.

Legal first means girl could one day give birth to her own half-sibling.

Baby is first to be born from eggs matured and frozen in the lab.

Early immune resistance may have helped to set stage for modern pandemic.

Plants and animals show big spring-time shift over a decade.

New census highlights threatened status of many species.

Windy waters may mean less greenhouse gas is stored at sea.

Research on mice raises hopes for regrowing hair.

Like mole rats, hominins may have had a diet rich in bulbs and tubers.

Having different words for light and dark blue may change how you see them.

Bangkok summit sees tension over plans for emissions cuts.

International report sets out costs of bringing down global emissions.

Leaving just 2% of transgenic crop rows unsprayed could boost diversity.

Mozambique trial shows vaccine safe for young infants.

Swell from Alaskan storm breaks up megaberg at opposite end of the globe.

Ambitious plan surprises fellow space agencies.

Sweatshop conditions of Pakistani factories have led to unease over medical goods.

Modelling study shows how Anglo-Saxon élite outbred native Brits.

Landslide raises questions over impact of climate change on mountains.

Michael Hopkin finds out about this week's earthquake, which spurred waves that killed more than 500 people in Java, Indonesia.

Devices to help paralysed patients work computers set to get even faster.

Study suggests cannabis-users may be vulnerable to harder drugs.

Mouse sperm has been made in a dish, but the method is too unreliable for use in humans.

Man who 'awoke' after 19 years shows how nerve cells can regrow.

DNA analysis says there were probably woolly blondes.

Plants that build homes for bacteria could do without chemical nitrogen.

The ancestor of today's crocodiles was probably Australian.

Trade reforms aim to revive the region's flagging agriculture.

German fossil was a dwarf version of the largest dinosaurs.

Economists, medics and inventors go mad for the world's favourite game.

Chinese fossil points to aquatic origins for today's birds.