The breakthrough could offer up a new way to help curb the level of global carbon dioxide emissions.
Swimmers have been urged to be on the lookout due to a rise in the number of blood-sucking sea lampreys.
A new study has suggested that the universe is likely to be teeming with extraterrestrial life forms.
Brad Sapp thought he was going mad when he started hearing a voice in the early hours of the morning.
A groundbreaking new trial is aiming to find a way to regenerate the brains of clinically dead patients.
Scientists have been exploring ambitious new ways to effectively cool, rather than to warm up the planet.
Elon Musk's private space firm is aiming to land a spacecraft on the Red Planet within just two years.
Scientists have been coming up with new ideas to explain how the controversial propulsion system works.
An upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter's icy moon is offering ESA a unique opportunity for exploration.
A new video has been released showing a demonstration of the remarkably impressive Flyboard Air device.
72-year-old Ann Rodgers was forced to drink pond water to stay alive after becoming lost in Arizona.
An ambitious new project is aiming to make interstellar travel a reality within just three decades.
A new expedition is aiming to drill in to the crater left by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The SETI Institute is aiming to find evidence of aliens in a place where nobody had thought to look.
A woman had to be rescued from the ocean after swimming for several hours in pursuit of a cruise liner.
A popular viral video shows a woman seemingly vanish in the middle of an interview on Danish television.
A peculiar naming ritual has produced a plethora of unusual monikers including Google and Coffee.
The picturesque coastal village of Fairbourne in Wales is to be swallowed up by rising sea levels.
Scientists are set to make a 'major' announcement about gravitational waves this coming Thursday.
A $100,000 prize is being offered to anyone who can successfully preserve a fully functional human brain.