Without the availability of modern machinery the ancient builders of the pyramids had to improvise.
Two of the new super-speed lifts will be installed inside China's Guangzhou Finance Centre by 2016.
A new technique is able to see and accurately reconstruct images directly from a person's mind.
Up until the accident Pip Taylor was almost completely useless at drawing and sketching.
Cheese dating back more than 3,600 years has been found on mummies unearthed in the Taklamakan desert.
Scientists have identified a new type of antechinus that can only be found in Springbrook National Park.
A musical three-piece made up entirely of robots is set to release its very own album of original music.
Researchers have discovered that organic material may be hitching a ride in interstellar dust particles.
The remarkable preservation of 120-million-year-old fossil beds in China may have finally been explained.
Paleontologists have pieced together a new species of sauropod dinosaur from its fossil remains.
Chinese researchers have managed to observe and film natural ball lightning for the first time.
A man in Australia managed to get himself stuck inside a washing machine while playing hide-and-seek.
A new study has revealed some of the more unusual diets of those who lived in the doomed Roman city.
The world's largest tunnel-boring machine has run in to a mysterious object and nobody knows what it is.
A science team in South China achieved the feat by injecting the animals with the DNA of a jellyfish.
Hippopotamus ranching was almost introduced in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.
The mission represents the first time any spacecraft has soft landed on the moon in over 37 years.
An investigator watching a building in the early hours managed to film something unusual in the sky.
China has successfully launched its latest lunar spacecraft in a bid to place a rover on the moon.
Doctors in China have successfully removed a dandelion found growing in the ear of a 16-month-old girl.