An isolated reservoir untouched for up to 2.64 billion years has been found at a mine in Ontario.
Climate change expert Lord Stern has warned that rising carbon dioxide levels could destroy communities.
Russian Billionaire Dmitry Itskov has founded an initiative intent on finding a way to live forever.
Referred to as a 'living fossil', the coelacanth has barely changed at all in over 300 million years.
The meat-eating Dahalokely tokana is thought to have roamed the Earth 90 million years ago.
The two-million-year-old fossil remains of an ancient human ancestor have been uncovered in South Africa.
In an unusual event, billions of cicadas are due to awaken en-masse along American's East Coast.
There are indications that NASA's next budget will include $100 million for a new asteroid mission.
Since being released under the Freedom of Information Act, the memo has been viewed 1 million times.
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is planning to construct a full scale replica of the famous ship.
In several billion years time a whole new universe could open up within our own universe and replace it.
A new type of drug could save millions of lives by targetting the parasite's ability to expel salt.
The 68 million-year-old remains of a previously unknown species of pterosaur have been discovered.
Just a single gram of DNA is capable of storing data with the capacity of half a million DVDs.
A controversial story from Russia suggests that a prehistoric machine part is extraterrestrial in origin.
Scientists believe that the components for life have been present on Mars for millions of years.
Excavations at the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt have revealed an immense number of animal burials.
Recent discoveries have indicated the likelihood that our own galaxy is teeming with planets.
Researchers have uncovered bacteria fossils so old that they predate oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
The new class of black hole is so large that it has an equivalent mass of up to 40 billion suns.