Police in India are searching for a monkey that carried off and killed a small child in the eastern state of Orissa.
The Hollywood actor's unsuccessful attempts to woo the female android have been featured in a new video.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the well-preserved remains of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex in Montana.
A company in Germany has developed an impressive spider-like robot that has a unique way of getting around.
A woman complaining of back pain was found to have a broken epidural needle lodged in her spine.
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.
The upcoming launch of the ground-breaking new space telescope has now been pushed back to 2020.
Scientists at Cambridge University have been working on an emotive human-like robot known as Charles.
Salt particles, he argues, would reflect more of the Sun's rays back in to space and help to reduce global warming.
Ski resorts in several countries were left looking like the surface of Mars after a recent fall of orange-tinged snow.
Unusual footage has emerged showing an elephant attempting to ingest pieces of smouldering charcoal.
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.
One astronomer was left red-faced this week after he mistook the planet Mars for an undiscovered star.
The accident marks the first time that a pedestrian has ever been killed by an autonomous vehicle.
The last remaining male of the species, Sudan, was put down on Monday after several months of ill-health.
During a meeting in 1979, blind mystic Baba Vanga allegedly predicted that Putin would 'rule the world'.
Tony Ferguson had been visiting the historic vessel in Portsmouth when he caught something strange on film.