The $10 billion Large Hadron Collider is back in action after 14 months of repairs following its spectacular failure ove...
A controversial type of evolution has been evidenced in the discovery of a new type of flying reptile that fills a gap i...
Most black holes are either very large or very small, but a new study has identified evidence for what it believed to be...
The first ever space hotel is still on target to accept paying guests as early as 2012. The multi-billion dollar "Galact...
A new world record has been set for the most distant astronomical object ever observed, astronomers have viewed light fr...
A fossil of the 50-million-year-old Algeripithecus long believed to be the strongest evidence that apes and humans origi...
Evidence has been found to suggest that giant creatures such as the massive one-tonne titanoboa snake would have thrived...
Weighing less than a teacup Chihuahua the newly discovered Fruitadens haagarorum which lived 150 million years ago was j...
A fossil hailed to be the missing link in how pterosaur dinosaurs evolved from small bird-size creatures has been discov...
Geologists in India have discovered literally hundreds of dinosaur egg clusters dating back 65 million years. Scientists...
New light has been shed on the link between chimps and humans with the discovery of Ardi, our oldest known ancestor - a ...
A new fossil analysis of plesiosaur remains found in Japan has revealed that the creature was fed upon by a gang of at l...
When a massive comet smashed in to the Earth 65 million years ago it caused widespread devastation that saw the end of t...
A newly discovered predatory dinosaur has been discovered that is a perfect, miniature copy of the Tyrannosaurus rex, ev...
Scientists have discovered that animals exude a "stench of death" when they die in order to repel their living relatives...
A number of human skulls discovered in Georgia have put conventional views on mankind's evolution in to doubt, suggestin...
A new study has revealed that over 25 million people in Britain have been injured by biscuits with 500 people a year nee...
A controversial new area of research is being backed by the Royal Society which plans to simulate volcanic eruptions and...
NASA are investing over four billion dollars over the next decade to developing and launching a mission to Jupiter's icy...
In an ironic twist the £30 million supercomputer used by the Met Office to predict climate change is one of Britain's w...