Scientists have revealed that giant hogweed has spread to Virginia and can now be found in at least eight US states.
New research has revealed that Antarctica is melting three times faster than previously thought.
The upgrade will significantly boost the facility's potential to make groundbreaking new physics discoveries.
The disturbing experiment has been designed to highlight the potential dangers of intelligent machines.
Astronomers have found a solar system 160 light years away with three planets roughly the size of our own.
Scientists have come up with an alternative explanation for the peculiar orbits of some distant objects.
Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev demonstrated their football skills ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Giant troughs running for hundreds of kilometers have been found deep beneath the ice at the South Pole.
A mother-of-seven in Mexico has claimed that she is six months pregnant with her eighth child at the age of 70.
Scientists have warned that huge worms up to 40cm long have been silently invading French gardens.
Italian architecture firm Lazzarini Design Studio is looking to construct entire neighborhoods that float in the ocean.
In a potentially groundbreaking experiment, memories were successfully transferred from one snail to another.
A new company is planning to rejuvenate dogs with the eventual goal of attempting the same thing in humans.
When our star eventually dies, it will go out in a blaze of glory and produce what is known as a planetary nebula.
For the first time ever, scientists have detected helium in the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around a distant star.
The 'Little Boy' nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 ended the lives of tens of thousands of civilians.
A remarkable new video shows what the inside of your mouth looks like when you have a conversation.
New evidence has been discovered to suggest that our ancestors hunted down giant prehistoric sloths.
Capable of taking drastic action to protect their colonies, these ants have a rather unusual defense mechanism.
A new study has revealed that plants protect themselves from Sun damage by repairing their own DNA.