The world's first sustainable fusion reactor could become workable within just two years.
The world's oldest known dinosaur embryos have been identified at 190 million years old.
Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient axehead in Australia dating back 35,000 years.
Legends and stories of monsters in different cultures around the world are surprisingly similar.
The octopus that rose to fame by predicting World Cup results this year has died.
The first ever commercial spaceport has opened its runway in the New Mexico desert.
The world's largest statue of Jesus is being constructed in a small Polish town.
The permanantly miserable looking blobfish is facing extinction due to overfishing.
The mysterious decline of honey bees around the world might be due to both a virus and a fungus.
A driver has set a new world record by driving over 1,500 miles in a car without refuelling once.
The UN are appointing an astrophysicist to be the world's representative in the event of alien contact.
A newly discovered species of spider in Madagascar has been found to spin the world's largest spider webs.
The world's first opera performed entirely in the Klingon language is under way in The Hague, Netherlands.
SETI have spent years trying to detect signals from another world but could aliens be actually listening to us ?
Nine of the world's largest moths - the giant Atlas moth - have hatched at a butterfly sanctuary in the UK.
Doctors in Argentina have removed the world's largest tumour weighing almost 4 stone from a patient.
The world's first amateur rocket designed to carry humans in to space has been developed in Denmark.
A computer scientist has solved one of the most difficult and complex mathematics problems in the world.
Several of the world's leading powers are combining forces to finance a joint nuclear fusion project.
Veteran researcher Ron Halliday has said that Scotland is one of the world's hot spots for unexplained phenomena.