New research has shown how important the eyes are in determining if we are looking at a living person.
In something akin to the replicators in Star Trek scientists are working on a food "printer".
Liquid found inside an ancient bronze cooking pot is believed to be a sample of 2,400 year-old soup.
A massive object four times the size of Jupiter could be lurking in the outer solar system.
According to a new study pterosaurs would have "pole vaulted" in to the air when taking off.
UK supermarket Lidl has been under fire for stocking reindeer meat on the run up to Christmas.
Jupiter's southern equatorial belt which disappeared in May is showing signs of a reappearance.
Taking the idea of panspermia one step further - could dead alien microbes have spread life to the Earth ?
A new study of the Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun has revealed new clues as to what killed him.
A massive record-breaking alligator measuring over 14ft in length has been caught in Florida.
Taiwanese researchers are working on a way to replace street lamps with glow-in-the-dark trees.
New technology designed to extract water from potatoes could help provide drinking water during droughts.
Scientists may have solved the mystery of the goat-sucking chupacabra through evolution.
Researchers in the US and UK are attempting to determine the true nature of near-death experiences.
Christopher Columbus has been cleared of taking syphilis with him back to Europe from the Americas.
The Deep Impact spacecraft will soon be making a close approach of the comet Hartley 2.
A team is soon to embark on an expedition to seek India's answer to Bigfoot, the Mande-burung.
Dogs rely heavily on identifying their owners by looking at their face scientists have found.
A decorative gunpowder gourd is thought to contain the dried blood of French King Louis XVI.
The permanantly miserable looking blobfish is facing extinction due to overfishing.