The SpaceX CEO has launched Neuralink - a new company which aims to merge humans with computers.
$19.5 billion has been authorized to support a renewed commitment to NASA's manned space program.
North Island's Whanganui River has been granted the same legal rights and privileges as a human being.
New research has suggested that humans may have been responsible for the formation of the Sahara.
New research has revealed that spiders eat twice as much animal prey as humans do each year.
The 400,000-year-old fossil cranium has been hailed as the oldest discovery of its kind in the country.
The space agency has been given a set of ambitious new goals which include a manned mission to Mars.
The humorously named research submarine is preparing to venture beneath the waters of the Antarctic.
In a peculiar change to their normal behavior, humpback whales have been seen congregating en masse.
Two partial human skulls unearthed in central China could belong to an unknown archaic human species.
In a world first, researchers have managed to create artificial embryos using the stem cells of mice.
Special humanoid robots could soon be used to help grow replacement skin, bones and organs for patients.
Agility Robotics has developed an incredible new robot called Cassie that can walk just like a human.
A new joint mission will see astronauts orbiting the Moon for the first time in over four decades.
Known as Saccorhytus, this tiny creature is the earliest known step on the evolutionary path of mankind.
A new study has cast doubt on the idea that climate change wiped out most of Australia's huge beasts.
Researchers in Brazil have warned that some vampire bat populations have started targeting humans.
An eerily realistic robot designed to emulate a human woman has been turning heads this week in China.
Scientists have found a way to identify the DNA of our ancestors from prehistoric bone dust samples.
A new study has suggested that it would not take long for a zombie apocalypse to wipe out mankind.