A UK railway station was temporarily closed after reports that there was a lion on the tracks.
As the population reaches 7 billion, nobody is quite sure who the 7 billionth person actually is.
A giant human slinky costume is on eBay in time for Halloween with a $1 million price tag.
Alexander Yee and Shigeru Kondo managed to break their previous record of 5 trillion digits.
Wireless bike brake that fails only three times in a trillion could revolutionize bike control systems.
The European Space Agency will send a spacecraft to within 42 million km of our star.
NASA is offering to fund a private company who can provide manned trips to and from the space station.
Scientists have discovered feathers preserved in hardened tree resin from 70 million years ago.
NASA has warned that a large $750 million satellite is soon to fall uncontrolled out of orbit.
NASA's New Horizons probe is still hurtling towards Pluto at a speed of 1 million miles a day.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has taken a photograph of the Earth from six million miles away.
Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel has pumped $1.25 million in to the project to help it become a reality.
Geologists have unearthed fossilized single cell organisms that lived over 3 billion years ago.
The ancient wood belonged to a small herb and would have grown over 400 million years ago.
A multi-billion dollar railway tunnel project is in doubt over land patrolled by a swamp monster.
Terminonaris would have been 25ft in length and walked the Earth some 100 million years ago.
Lionfish have been invading reefs along the Florida coast and devastating ocean fish stocks.
Diprotodon would have weighed around 3 tons and wandered Australia up to two million years ago.
A painting that was sold for £45 was later found to be by Da Vinci and is now worth £120 million.
Over 8 million gallons of drinking water were drained after a man decided to use the lake as a toilet.