Leading scientists have said that meat grown in vats may be needed to feed the population by the year 2050.
Scientists in Britain have produced red blood cells from spare IVF embryos for the first time.
Researchers have developed an invisibility cloak out of silk that can bend certain types of light around solid objects.
It has been revealed that some of the cattle cloned to help food production in the US used cells from dead animals.
A computer scientist has solved one of the most difficult and complex mathematics problems in the world.
Several of the world's leading powers are combining forces to finance a joint nuclear fusion project.
Paul Stender and his team in Indianapolis have built a bus with a jet engine capable of reaching a speed of 367mph.
A poo-powered Volkswagon Beetle has been touring UK streets to help encourage sustainable motoring.
Japanese robot inventor Hiroshi Ishiguro has developed a particularly creepy robot called the Telenoid R1.
Scientists are taking gradual steps towards the concept of teleportation via quantum entanglement.
Scientists have discovered massive undersea rivers flowing along the bottom of the world's oceans.
A team will revisit the Titanic next month and generate a 3-dimensional map of the entire wreckage.
The team working on the Large Hadron Collider have reported closing in on the heaviest particle known to science.
Iran has announced research and development of a nuclear fusion reactor with a budget of $7 million.
Physicists have come up with a new theory for time travel that avoids the infamous 'grandfather paradox'.
Salesman have used declining oxygen levels as an excuse to sell oxygen supplements - but how much truth is there to it ?
The US Navy has successfully tested a laser weapon that is capable of shooting down aircraft.
Scientists are examining the different layers of paint used by Da Vinci in order to try and crack the Mona Lisa's smile.
Glaciers on Mount Everest have been shrinking over the last 80 years according to new photographs of the region.
Two British researchers have developed the world's first set of bionic legs that allow paraplegics to walk again.