Felix Baumgartner will attempt to become the first human to break the sound barrier unaided by a vehicle. The Austrian…
John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan, two pioneers of stem cell research, have shared the Nobel…
The first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has begun. A Falcon rocket carrying a Dragon…
A well-preserved mammoth carcass has been found by an 11-year-old boy in the permafrost of northern Siberia. The remains were…
NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing to scoop its first sample of Martian soil. The vehicle, which landed on the Red…
Australia has launched one of the world's fastest telescopes tasked with surveying outer space and probing the origins of stars…
Most of us have been caught in a torrential downpour and wished we could make it stop, but how would…
A new study shows that Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half its coral cover in the past…
Curiosity rover has only been on the surface of Mars seven weeks but it has already turned up evidence of…
Curiosity rover has completed its first close-contact science on Mars. The robot pushed its arm instruments up against a pyramidal…
A British-American team that came up with an equation to predict the shape of a ponytail has earned itself an…
Dark Energy Camera, the highest-resolution camera ever built, has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes…
Russian Soyuz capsule has returned to Earth with its three-man crew after they spent 123 days at the International Space…
An IBM team in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms…
The discovery of well-preserved woolly mammoth remains in eastern Siberia has raised distant hopes that the animal could be cloned.…
British archaeologists searching for the grave of Richard III have said "strong circumstantial evidence" points to a skeleton being the…
A form of virgin birth has been found in wild vertebrates for the first time. US researchers caught pregnant females…
Antarctic bivalves have surprised scientists who have discovered that the molluscs switch sex. The reproduction of Lissarca miliaris was studied…
New evidence appears to back the idea that the US helped cover up Soviet guilt for the 1940 Katyn massacre…
Cheetah robot has set a new world speed record for legged robots, running faster than Usain Bolt, who is considered…
Japanese researchers mapped the muscles fibres of cheetah known to accelerate to record-breaking speeds. By comparing the cheetah's muscles with…
Scientists in the Arctic are warning that this summer's record-breaking melt is part of an accelerating trend with profound implications.…
Curiosity rover has measured the Red Planet's atmospheric composition. NASA’s robot sucked the air into its big Sample Analysis at…
NASA's Dawn satellite has left the giant Asteroid Vesta after 13 months of study. A signal from Dawn probe confirming…
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini has described the Roman Catholic Church as being "200 years behind" the times. Cardinal Carlo Maria…