Fighting Fit

Illusion gives people out-of-body experience

Volunteers tricked into perceiving someone else's body as their own, offering insight into brain's sense of self

Britain’s cars may go electric by 2025

Plans to be set out by the government’s Committee on Climate Change tomorrow would make Britain's roads green if realised

Sea animals navigate with magnetic maps

Scientists have found evidence to explain how sea creatures navigate across the ocean with pinpoint accuracy

Find reveals how the turtle got its shell

Ancient fossil remains hailed as long-sought missing link between turtles that have full shells and shell-less ancestors

Space plumes may hold water

Spectacular supersonic plumes of gas and dust shooting from one of Saturn’s moons may contain water, astronomers say

Astronaut's lost bag can be seen from earth

Wednesday and Friday provide the best opportunities for amateur astronomers to glimpse the toolbag travelling at 15,000mph

Size doesn't matter for in fertilisation race

Research casts doubt on commonly held belief that bigger sperm are more likely to be successful in reaching an egg

Meteor lights up sky and breaks up

Scientists are searching for remnants of one of the largest meteors visible in the last decade Watch video

Teed up: the long-haul golf ball

New research could lead to scientists developing a new generation of far more accurate, ultra-long-distance golf balls

New model humans

The transplant of a windpipe built from stem cells shows that thanks to science we are entering a new era of medicine

KGB wanted me to defect, says Sir Bernard Lovell

The astronomer and celebrated scientist has hinted that the Soviet Union wanted him to defect at the height of the Cold War

Mile-thick glaciers found on Mars

Glaciers formed up to 100 million years ago are evidence of climate change and may provide water source for astronauts

Genetic code of woolly mammoth mapped-out

Success raises hopes it may be possible to resurrect the behemoths

Nasa loses its space spider

One of two orb weaver spiders sent to the orbiting laboratory aboard the space shuttle Endeavour has disappeared

Possibly a genuine breakthrough

The first transplant of a whole complex organ, engineered specifically for a particular patient , is a big step forward