The United Nations will be addressing the threat posed by sophisticated autonomous weapons platforms.
An organization in San Francisco is planning to send messages out to potentially habitable planets.
Military amputees are to be among the first to benefit from DARPA's revolutionary new prosthetic arm.
Conservationists have warned that the world's fastest land animal is on the verge of being wiped out.
Being 250 miles above the Earth hasn't stopped the space station crew from joining in with the festivities.
Japan-based Team HAKUTO is the latest contender hoping to scoop Google's $20 million Lunar X-Prize.
Scientists have detected a further six mystery radio bursts originating from outside of our galaxy.
Recent advances in computer-brain interfaces could soon make brain-to-brain communication a reality.
A team at the University of Western Ontario have managed to build a snowman a mere three microns tall.
The unexpected flurry is the first to have been reported in the region for almost four decades.
The 300-year-old publication has become the most expensive printed science book ever sold at auction.
China claims that it is currently testing the 'impossible' space engine on the Tiangong 2 space station.
The Temple of the Jedi Order has failed in its latest bid to be recognized as a religious organization.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found cooking pot fragments dating back over 10,000 years.
Researchers have identified a large number of new flora and fauna in the Mekong River basin.
Vast quantities of mackerel and pilchard have washed up along the shore for the second time this month.
The discovery marks the second time a strange object has washed up on a beach in New Zealand this month.
A mysterious metallic sound recorded by researchers could actually be a never-before-heard whale call.
An ancient civilization is believed to have built standing stones in the rainforest over 1,000 years ago.
Several sets of footprints left by an ancient human ancestor have been found at the site of a new museum.