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Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

Black holes suggest our universe is a hologram.

Monster sunspot triggers big solar flares.

Mojave desert tests prepare for NASA Mars roving.

Is aging a disease?

4,700 asteroids want to kill you.

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

NASA spots the light of a 'super-Earth'.

Life on Mars? Mars Rover Opportunity finds some of the necessary conditions once existed.

Star Trek fans to launch Kirk & Picard to edge of space.

Scientific ghost city to test future technology.

Suburban dinosaur discovered outside Melbourne.

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

Extraterrestrial life may not be based on DNA or RNA.

Beer, whiskey and pork fat: the new health foods?

Huge water reserve discovered under Africa.

Twenty-four new species of lizards discovered on Caribbean islands are close to extinction.

Power really does corrupt as scientists claim it's as addictive as cocaine.

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

Asteroid miners wanted to tap space rock riches.

Porn may 'shut down' part of your brain.

Nineteenth Century therapy for Parkinson's disease may help patients today.

Man uses physics to fight $400 traffic ticket.

Is this a video of a huge fireball over Texas?

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

Is this proof of life on Mars?

Lost interviews with Steve Jobs rediscovered.

Sleeping with Neanderthals.

Jupiter, born too late?

Finding ET may require giant robotic leap.

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

Death Star dinosaur aliens could rule galaxy.

Physicists create first long-distance quantum link.

Astronomers zooming in on alien "Earth-sized" planet system.

Pigeons' sixth sense eludes scientists.

International team unearths oldest-ever reptile embryos.

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

IBM takes on a gigantic computing task to find the universe's origins.

The sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed for the first time.

Exploding dinosaur theory exploded.

Getting to know the Goldilocks planet.

Ancient human had feet like an ape.

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

4,000-year-old stone monolith likely an astronomical marker.

Plastic-eating fungi found in Amazon.

Findings cast doubt on Moon's origin.

A new online Isaac Newton archive sheds light on an era when science and faith were undivided.

Megalara garuda: the King of Wasps.

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

Earth once had hazy methane atmosphere like ice-moon Titan.

Geologic map of Jupiter's moon Io details an otherworldly volcanic surface.

Men turn dumber around women.

Astronaut to record cosmic music in orbit.

Sex-deprived fruit flies drink more alcohol.

Here's just a glimpse of some of the science stories that hit this week you might have missed.

Russia plans Moon base, Mars network by 2030.

Attractive folk are less shallow than their uglier cousins.

Two hundred Earth-sized planets - the latest Kepler mission findings.

Eye health related to brain health.

"Signs that something peculiar is going on in the universe"