An organization in San Francisco is planning to send messages out to potentially habitable planets.
Military amputees are to be among the first to benefit from DARPA's revolutionary new prosthetic arm.
A particular large Australian fur seal was seen this week wandering up a street and climbing on to cars.
Archaeologists have unveiled a hidden wall that may indicate the presence of nearby pharaonic tombs.
Being 250 miles above the Earth hasn't stopped the space station crew from joining in with the festivities.
Scientists have detected a further six mystery radio bursts originating from outside of our galaxy.
Recent advances in computer-brain interfaces could soon make brain-to-brain communication a reality.
Some young meat-eating dinosaurs lost their teeth as they grew up and ended up becoming plant-eaters.
A team at the University of Western Ontario have managed to build a snowman a mere three microns tall.
A team at the CERN facility near Geneva, Switzerland have been experimenting with antihydrogen atoms.
The unexpected flurry is the first to have been reported in the region for almost four decades.
Police in China were left shocked after the man admitted to using the explosive device as a nut cracker.
The 300-year-old publication has become the most expensive printed science book ever sold at auction.
Scientists have discovered a flow of liquid iron in the planet's core 3000km beneath the surface.
China claims that it is currently testing the 'impossible' space engine on the Tiangong 2 space station.
The Temple of the Jedi Order has failed in its latest bid to be recognized as a religious organization.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found cooking pot fragments dating back over 10,000 years.
Researchers have identified a large number of new flora and fauna in the Mekong River basin.
A giant bipedal robot that looks like something out of the movie 'Avatar' has been unveiled this month.
Vast quantities of mackerel and pilchard have washed up along the shore for the second time this month.