A controversial new book has suggested that animals possess a sense of morality and are able to tell right from wrong in...
A research team lead by forensic scientist Elayne Pope have been investigating exactly how the human body burns by setti...
NASA is on target for a mission to the Moon in June designed to search for suitable landing sites with water where human...
It has long been thought that God, if he exists, cannot be detected or measured through the tools of science, but now sc...
A dangerous spider with enough venom to kill a human has taken up residence in Britain following a series of mild winter...
The remains of a 47-million-year-old creature dubbed as the "missing link" between primates and humans has been revealed...
A controversial new theory has suggested that the Neanderthals may have died out 30,000 years ago because modern humans ...
Will regular travel in outer space result in changes to the human brain ? Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell experienced wh...
The oldest known human hairs have been discovered inside the fossil of ancient hyena dung unearthed in a Chilean cemeter...
Scientists in China are preparing to launch another excavation at the cave where the first Peking Man skull was found al...
A new BBC documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough is due to be broadcast in the near future in which an alleged ...
A new genetic survey of people in Africa has suggested that the Kalahari desert in southwest Africa could be the origin ...
Even six years on, the discovery of a strange new prehistoric species of small human nicknamed 'hobbits' continues to my...
It is believed NASA may abandon its plans to build a base on the Moon and instead focus its efforts on manned missions t...
With the ever increasing complexity of the World Wide Web and the way in which some parts of it parallel the workings of...
Some anthropologists believe that the rapid changes in the world around us coupled with the pressures of modern life are...
Why do you humans cry ? A Neuroscientist at the University of Maryland believes that the ability for humans to cry is an...
In a scientific first, a robot put together over five years at Aberystwyth University has become the first machine ever ...
Honda have announced that it has developed a robot that can be steered by human thought via a helmet that is capable of ...
6000 applicants from over 40 countries have signed up for a chance to take part in an experiment designed to see how hum...