A groundbreaking new study suggests that scientists have underestimated the impact of climate change.
Swiss food giant Nestle has found a way to reduce sugar in chocolate by 40% without affecting the taste.
An enormous venomous snake has been managing to evade capture in an apartment complex in South Africa.
The oldest human being on Earth, Emma Morano, is the last person alive to have seen the 19th century.
The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has returned a set of high-quality test photographs from the Red Planet.
It takes the average person only 0.25 seconds to tell that an android is not an actual human being.
It has long been considered something of an old wives' tale, but could there really be some truth to it ?
One of Thomas Pesquet's first tasks aboard the space station wasn't quite what he was hoping for.
An eagle-eyed Internet user has spotted some peculiar pyramid-shaped structures on Google Earth.
The 'many interacting worlds' theory ties quantum physics to the idea of countless parallel universes.
Hints of an unknown species of human have been found in the DNA of the modern day Melanesian people.
Almost a century ago, 21 people were killed in Boston by a deadly and destructive tidal wave of syrup.
Dr Fergus Simpson maintains that humanity has a 13% chance of going extinct before the century is out.
A Japanese scientist has revealed that eating the frozen dessert for breakfast boosts mental performance.
The huge terrestrial crab species can exert a pinching force greater than any other crustacean on Earth.
Geologists have managed to link silica deposits on Mars with biological processes occurring on the Earth.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified an ice deposit with more water than Lake Superior.
NASA's 'impossible' propulsion system continues to intrigue as it receives its first peer-reviewed paper.
The 'Investigatory Powers Act' means that from now on, nothing you do or say online will ever be private.
An anonymous do-gooder sent shoppers in to a frenzy when he showered them with bank notes on Saturday.