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First 'extraterrestrial human' to be born by 2024
Oct 27, 2018Netherlands-based firm SpaceLife Origin is aiming to make off-world reproduction a reality within six years.
World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered
Oct 23, 2018The wreck of a wooden vessel dating back 2,400 years has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Man hits record-breaking high-pitched note
VIDEO Oct 19, 2018Wang Xiaolong, who is from China, achieved a world record in the 'highest vocal note by a male' category.
Jurassic piranhas roamed prehistoric waters
Oct 19, 2018A fossil belonging to one of the world's earliest known flesh-eating fish has been unearthed in Germany.
Otherworldly 'singing' recorded in Antarctica
VIDEO Oct 19, 2018Scientists have captured audio of the Antarctic ice shelf 'singing' and it sounds decidedly eerie.
World's 'largest living thing' is slowly dying
Oct 18, 2018A record-breaking 80,000-year-old clonal colony of aspen trees in central Utah is in danger of being wiped out.
Future of 1,000mph supersonic car in doubt
Oct 15, 2018An attempt to build the first car capable of exceeding 1,000mph has hit a major financial roadblock.
Hawking feared rise of enhanced 'superhumans'
Oct 14, 2018The late physicist predicted that genetic engineering will ultimately render half of the world's population obsolete.
Underwater 'lost world' found off Tasmania
VIDEO Oct 10, 2018A deep sea research vessel has discovered a chain of underwater mountains that are teeming with life.
Scientists to set up a microbial 'Noah's Ark'
Oct 5, 2018The plan would involve preserving the beneficial bacteria found in the guts of people from all across the world.
Neptune-sized extrasolar moon discovered
Oct 4, 2018Astronomers have found what is thought to be the first confirmed moon in orbit around an extrasolar world.
WWII bombs sent shockwaves to edge of space
Oct 1, 2018It turns out that the devastating bombing raids of World War II damaged more than just targets on the ground.
Gigantic 3m-tall 'big bird' was world's largest
VIDEO Sep 26, 2018A gargantuan species of ostrich-like elephant bird from Madagascar was thought to the largest that ever lived.
Planet-hunting probe finds two new candidates
Sep 23, 2018A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
Dickinsonia is world's oldest known animal
Sep 21, 2018A new study has cast further light on a mystery fossil that scientists say is as 'strange as life on another planet'.
Astronomers discover real-life planet Vulcan
Sep 20, 2018The new planet is located in the same star system as Spock's home world in the 'Star Trek' universe.
HMS Endeavour may have been found in the US
Sep 19, 2018The final resting place of one of the world's most famous ships has reportedly been found after 240 years.
World's oldest brewery discovered in Israel
Sep 16, 2018Traces of beer dating back more than 13,000 years have been found in a cave near the Israeli city of Haifa.
What wiped out the world's largest bird ?
Sep 13, 2018The elephant bird, along with some of Madagascar's other megafauna, went extinct around 1,000 years ago.
Musk: 'We are probably living in a simulation'
Sep 10, 2018The SpaceX CEO continues to maintain that the world we see is nothing more than a computer simulation.
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