Scientists have confirmed the authenticity of a blood sample said to be from the French king.
An enormous long boat uncovered in 1996 at Roskilde is the largest Viking vessel ever discovered.
When 81-year-old Alun Morgan suffered from a stroke he woke up to find that he could speak Welsh.
The two main ways of tracking Santa's progress this year have come up with decidely different results.
Archaeologists have identified the largest sarcophagus ever found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
More than 100 coffins have been desecrated by grave robbers making voodoo charms from body parts.
Japanese researchers have claimed that praise is as good as money at making people work harder.
Astronomers have found that the rate of star birth is 30 times less than it was 11 billion years ago.
Following the poor summer in Britain this year some bees have started looking elsewhere for nectar.
Researchers were stunned to discover that a captive cockatoo was able to build its own tools.
Japan is looking to follow China by launching its own manned space programme within the next decade.
The strongest evidence yet of a Viking outpost on Baffin Island has been presented by archaeologists.
Despite fears over global warming the amount of sea ice at the South Pole is breaking new records.
Could NASA be working on technology that could one day enable us to travel to other solar systems ?
Those who 'knew the answer all along' may not be quite as clever as they are making themselves out to be.
In a publicity stunt for 'The Walking Dead', a zombie is attempting to become the next US president.
A new detector instrument is being planned to locate and track possible destinations for astronauts.
A woman holidaying in Iceland was unaware that the search party she had joined was looking for her.
Archaeologists believe the remains of King Richard III could be buried underneath a council car park.
How long will it be before robots and computers become capable of thinking like a human being ?