The state-of-the-art train managed a top speed of 603km/h on a test track near Mount Fuji this week.
Samantha Cristoforetti did her best Captain Janeway impression for an epic orbital selfie this week.
The Chilean government has concluded that an object witnessed over a copper mine was not man-made.
Scientists have been investigating human hibernation as a way to enable long-haul space trips.
Vit Jedlicka has declared the creation of Liberland, a new independent state between Serbia and Croatia.
Adventurer Alex Bellini will live inside a special survival pod on top of an iceberg in Greenland.
A woman who hit her head while on holiday found that she had developed extraordinary mental capabilities.
Chimpanzees in southeastern Senegal have become quite adept at making their own weapons.
A teacher from Berlin has become the oldest woman in history to become pregnant with four babies.
Computer scientist Valery Spiridonov is set to become the first man in history to undergo the procedure.
New research suggests that the human chin may have resulted from our ability to cook and soften food.
Louis Jordan's family had feared the worst after he disappeared off the coast of South Carolina.
A DNA analysis suggests that a woman known as Zana may have been from a long lost human subspecies.
Lorraine Cobourn developed the curious phobia after being hit by a yellow taxi and breaking her hip.
Authorities have been appealing for assistance after the man walked in to the Polish Embassy in London.
Lake Baikal in Siberia has been home to a spate of peculiar sightings and strange tales in recent years.
Our distant ancestors came in a variety of different shapes and sizes, just like modern humans do today.
A genome study has pinpointed when mankind's most recent common male ancestor would have lived.
Richard Bootman got the shock of his life when he opened his packet of Steak and Onion potato chips.
Scientists have proposed a rather unorthodox way of prospecting for gold and other valuable metals.