The new discovery of stone tools on the island of Flores suggests an evolutionary history of over 1 million years.
The Large Hadron Collider has broken its own energy record with two 3.5 trillion volt proton beams.
The remains of a dinosaur-like creature dating back 240 million years may change what we know about when dinosaurs appeared.
Wasps were using sophisticated antibiotics millions of years before the invention of penicillin new research has found.
Between 66 and 172 million years ago enormous plankton-eating fish prowled the depths of the world's oceans.
The Turin Shroud is expected to attract up to 100 million visitors when it goes on display in Northern Italy this year.
Mystery has long surrounded giant fossils known as protoaxites that resemble tree trunks but are from before trees existed.
The Pentagon are looking to invest millions of dollars in to developing synthetic organisms in a new project called BioDesign.
The amount of money assigned by the United States to classified "black projects" has now exceeded over $56 billion.
Scientists have determined that approximately 1.2 million years ago humans were on the verge of extinction.
The first ever known venomous dinosaur has been discovered, a fearsome feathered predator that lived 125 million years a...
A US man who discovered a mispriced item on Amazon decided to purchase the $3 billion CD and see what happened. Brian Kl...
Scientists have discovered the remains of insect parts stuck between the teeth of prehistoric reptiles, the find suggest...
The oldest intact DNA ever found has been discovered inside salt deposits and belongs to a type of salt-loving bacteria ...
New research has suggested that ancient birds may have lost their teeth to lose enough weight to help them fly. The 150 ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the deepest view of the universe ever seen in near-infrared light, the...
New fossil evidence has suggested that some land animals would have survived the end-Permian mass extinction 252 million...
A school district employee in Arizona lost his job after he accumulated a $1 million bill using the computers to run the...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft launched in 2006 and has since been travelling towards Pluto, a historic 3-billion-mile, ...
The US Air Force has proposed a $50 million bid for new space technologies to improve surveillance, navigation and weath...