Promising trials in mice have opened up the possibility of improving health and extending life in humans.
Scientists have discovered a way to reduce 3D objects to a mere one thousandth of their original size.
Sir Richard Branson's dream of sending tourists up in to space is now one step closer to becoming a reality.
Wildlife authorities are trying to explain how monk seals are managing to get eels jammed up inside their nostrils.
The 180 million-year-old specimen was originally discovered at Holzmaden quarry in Germany.
The man who allegedly reverse-engineered UFOs is the subject of a new documentary about his time at Area 51.
A geoengineering technique known as stratospheric aerosol injection could reverse global warming.
The futuristic X-59 will be able to travel at supersonic speeds without producing a deafening sonic boom.
It may soon be possible to do away with the remote altogether and change channels using only your mind.
The origin of a flightless bird found only on a remote island in the Atlantic has puzzled scientists for years.
New research has suggested that chocolate may have originated outside of Mexico and Central America.
Wojciech Jabczynski couldn't believe his eyes when he found the ginger tabby on Poland's highest peak.
Netherlands-based firm SpaceLife Origin is aiming to make off-world reproduction a reality within six years.
The life-size replica of the ill-fated vessel will retrace the route taken by the original Titanic on its maiden voyage.
A fossil belonging to one of the world's earliest known flesh-eating fish has been unearthed in Germany.
Scientists have captured audio of the Antarctic ice shelf 'singing' and it sounds decidedly eerie.
The late physicist predicted that genetic engineering will ultimately render half of the world's population obsolete.
Richard Branson's fledgling space tourism firm could be heading in to space for the first time very soon.
A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
An 'extremely rare' adult copperhead snake with two heads was recently found in a garden in Woodbridge.