As technology gets more and more sophisticated will we one day become one with machines ?
The victims of Pompeii would have died from the intense heat rather than through suffocation.
The Vatican's official newspaper has declared Homer Simpson to be their idea of a true Catholic.
When two dolphin species interact they try to find a common language with which to communicate.
Scientists have come up with substantial evidence to suggest that Phobos was formed during a catastrophic event.
In the early 1800s Buddhist monks practiced a long and turturous process of self mummification.
Scientists have found further evidence for the existence of a new medium sized category of black hole.
Angler Raphael Biagini managed to catch an enormous koi carp thought to be the largest ever caught in the wild.
Helium has a wide range of applications from use in hospitals to cleaning rockets but how much do we have left ?
A three-month-old kitten living in Vladivostok, Russia was born with a peculiar set of additional ears.
It has been revealed that some of the cattle cloned to help food production in the US used cells from dead animals.
Scientists are developing fibers to make clothing that is able to see, hear and speak with a range of applications.
A 29-million-year-old skull has indicated that apes and Old World monkeys diverged far later than thought.
A species of wild cat has been documented mimicking the calls of monkeys to help it hunt them down as prey.
Lab monkeys in Japan succeeded in catapulting themselves from trees in order to escape over an electric fence.
A man from Georgia who dislocated his jaw biting in to a giant sandwich has had the delicacy renamed in his honour.
An intricate formation of almost 200 crop circles has turned up in a field in Wiltshire.
A microbiology professor who helped eradicate smallpox has claimed we will be extinct within only 100 years.
An experiment using lasers to try and communicate with aliens may account for UFO sightings last month.
Reporter Mark Fletcher investigates the possibility that big cats are currently living in the wilds of Britain.