The 34-year-old hiker succumbed to hypothermia after getting caught in a snowstorm in the Pyrenees.
Newly released documents have revealed how the CIA used birds and other animals during the Cold War.
An orthopaedic plate has been found in the stomach of a 4.7-meter-long crocodile that died in Queensland.
Tiffani Adams fell asleep during her flight and awoke to find that she was trapped alone in the parked plane.
Scientists have determined how sea creatures living in the depths of the polar oceans become so enormous.
Despite global warming, the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is still cooling thanks to a centuries-old cold spell.
Back in the 1950s, scientists in the UK developed a nuclear mine that required live chickens to work properly.
It turns out that Pinocchio was wrong - your nose doesn't grow when you lie, it actually gets colder and shrinks.
The prehistoric remains of a mammoth and rhinoceros have been discovered near Cambridge, England.
In 1841, ninth US President William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia after a mere 31 days in office.
A new mathematical model of the Sun's magnetic activity has indicated that we may soon be in for a cold spell.
Former Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov made a decision in 1983 that may have saved the world.
A 'vortex' of cold air over the Karakoram mountain range has been causing glaciers to continue growing.
A 'cold spot' that has puzzled scientists for years could be the point where two universes collided.
Scientists have announced the discovery of a freezing Earth-mass world 13,000 light years away.
A plan to pump cold water on to coral reefs to stop bleaching has been met with significant criticism.
A new experiment will aim to freeze gas atoms down to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero.
It has long been considered something of an old wives' tale, but could there really be some truth to it ?
A diver believes that he may have discovered a missing nuclear weapon at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
The species most notorious for killing its own in cold blood is perhaps not what you might expect.