In the future we could see businesses and governments laying claim to plots of land on other worlds.
One campany is working towards a future connected by a sophisticated vacuum tube transportation system.
The World Health Organisation has claimed that antibiotic resistant bacteria could cause a global crisis.
Scientists believe Tyrannosaurus rex had the strongest bite of any creature that ever lived.
Scientists have been investigating what some are calling the world's oldest ever murder case.
Surgeons in Turkey took 20 hours to surgically attach two legs and two arms to a young patient.
Astronomers have discovered a distant extrasolar water planet shrouded in a thick steamy atmosphere.
What would the world be like if humans were not the only sentient, intelligent species to exist today ?
Calls are being answered for an international code of conduct to govern off-world exploration practices.
What would the world be like if humans were twice as intelligent as they are today ? What would change ?
The miniscule hard drive is comprised of just 96 atoms and can store one byte of data.
A new species of tiny frog has been found by US researchers in the forests of Papua New Guinea.
People from around the world have been competing by filming themselves watching paint dry.
The project will see the world's first robot farm open on land swamped by the tsunami in Japan.
Scientists have discovered the 'building blocks of life' on the surface of the cold, distant world Pluto.
Etibar Elchyev achieved a world record for sticking 50 metal spoons magnetically to his body.
26-year-old Katie Dell is one of only 35 people in the world known to suffer from an allergy to water.
The ancient bottle was discovered in 1867 and has been kept at the Pfalz Historical Musuem.
SETI are back thanks to new funding and is turning its attention towards newly discovered alien worlds.
It is thought that neanderthals may have been the first to build structures using mammoth bones.