Unknown phone-tracking or 'Stingray' devices are thought to be in operation within the D.C. area.
Physicists at Harvard University have suggested that the universe could end almost as abruptly as it began.
Nectome is aiming to preserve the brains of dying people via a process that will prove fatal to the patient.
A new fossil analysis has revealed that one particular species of lizard had extra eyes on the top of its head.
A leading surgeon believes that we will gain the ability to read each other's minds within as little as 20 years.
Police in India are searching for a monkey that carried off and killed a small child in the eastern state of Orissa.
A huge crack that opened up in Kenya recently has indicated the beginnings of a new continental split.
The Hollywood actor's unsuccessful attempts to woo the female android have been featured in a new video.
A new paper has put forward the suggestion that the clouds of Venus could be a habitat for microbial life.
Scientists have come up with three mathematical equations to explain the sound of a cracked knuckle.
The accidental find highlights just how much there is still left to learn about the workings of the human body.
Scientists at Cambridge University have been working on an emotive human-like robot known as Charles.
The self-taught rocket scientist launched himself high in to the air over the Mojave Desert on Saturday.
An old photo of what is thought to be the house's original foundation has been discovered in a local archive.
The Pentagon has been working on a new non-lethal weapon that can make people hear voices and sounds.
NASA's flagship rover has now been trundling across the surface of the Red Planet for more than five years.
The World War II-era vessel went down in 1942 after being hit by Japanese torpedoes in the Pacific.
Researchers have finally determined why a zoo lioness has mysteriously sprouted mane-like head and neck hair.
Rather than ramming or nuking a large space rock, scientists have suggested simply covering it in paint.
Scientists believe that dinosaurs like Triceratops may have used their horns to impress potential partners.