At the beginning of the 20th century a doctor in Massachusetts attempted to weigh patients as they died.
Medics were called when the woman mysteriously caught fire without any apparent cause or explanation.
Japan's super-realistic 'Geminoid' robots are so convincing that some people can't tell the difference.
The International Space Station has made it possible for humans to maintain an ongoing presence in space.
The recently discovered asteroid due to pass by the Earth today actually looks like a skeletal face.
Old footage showing a strange child-sized doll that can walk like a human has gone viral on the Internet.
Our ability to make a fist and strike an opponent with sizable force might be an evolutionary trait.
A new science video has been exploring what might become of our species over the next few centuries.
Our tendency to not get enough sleep at night is seemingly not an exclusively modern phenomenon.
Anthropologists have discovered 47 human teeth in a cave in Southern China that date back 80,000 years.
Scientists have identified a potential new way of extending human longevity by up to 60 percent.
The highly dubious video footage shows a small humanoid creature running across someone's floor.
The space agency has outlined its plans to see humans living on Mars within the next three decades.
New evidence suggests that Australia was once home to huge reptiles that lived alongside early humans.
Scientists have determined that early humans had very different hearing abilities than we do today.
Scientists have succeeded in enabling brain-to-brain communication between two people over the Internet.
Transhumanists have been looking towards a future in which a person could spend their entire life awake.
A 3.5 million-year-old bacteria found in Siberia could make it possible for humans to live longer.
The controversial surgical procedure is set to be attempted on a human patient in December 2017.
The SpaceX CEO proposed the unconventional idea as a way to terraform the planet for humans to live on.