Is it possible for someone who has lost a leg or an arm to effectively regrow the missing limb ?
The amount of Greenland's ice sheet that has melted this month has reached unprecedented levels.
A team of bioengineers have taken cells from a rat's heart and used them to create a 'Franken-jelly'.
New research suggests that those who grow up in an atheist household are less likely to stay atheists.
How far can our imagination take us when it comes to envisaging extraterrestrial life forms ?
Special training exercises have taken place underwater in preparation for a manned asteroid mission.
Bookmakers have been accepting some rather unusual bets for the upcoming London Olympic Games.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has found a planet being destroyed by the heat of its own parent star.
Three astronauts are scheduled to visit the Tiangong 1 laboratory on China's fourth manned space mission.
Scientists have developed a means with which to use viruses to power small electrical devices.
Co-operation between space agencies could one day make the idea of a manned mission to Mars a reality.
A new exhibition will showcase Leonardo Da Vinci's remarkably accurate drawings of the human body.
The first ever space station resupply mission by a commercial operator is scheduled for the end of April.
The technology could lead to personal medicine dispensers that can be operated from one's own home.
Experts have been researching how a weightless environment could affect whisky maturation.
The ambitious Square Kilometre Array will be 50 times more sensitive than existing radio telescopes.
Authorities have been alerted of a new invasion of giant Gambian puched rats in the Florida Keys.
Councillor Simon Parkes has made the bizarre claim that his biological mother is an extraterrestrial.
Organisers were mortified to discover they'd downloaded the wrong song for the Kazakhstan anthem.
Huug Bosse has been unable to stop laughing after undergoing a hip operation two years ago.