Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

The Perseverance rover, operated by NASA, encountered an unusual rock on Mars that scientists have named the "skull," reports ...

A girl has relearned how to walk, talk and swallow after undergoing an operation rarely carried out on children, in which doctors stored part of her skull in her stomach. Ellie Morris-Davies ...

The 18-year-old lifts his curly brown hair to flash a long, red scar on the right side of his head, above his ear, where a piece of his skull is gone. The missing bone fragment has left a dent in ...

Peter Lever, who has died aged 84, was a fast-medium bowler who won the Ashes with England, for whom he took 41 wickets in 17 Tests; he played in the very first one-day international, and won the ...