Scientists have measured a record-breaking temperature of -91C on a mountain ridge in Antarctica.
Scientists believe that phobias may be passed down between generations through a person's DNA.
Spanish scientists are redoubling their efforts to clone the bucardo which died out 13 years ago.
The foul-smelling single-celled microbes are believed to have lived more than 3.5 billion years ago.
A bivalve mollusc that goes by the name of Ming has turned out to be a staggering 507 years old.
New DNA sequencing techniques have helped scientists unlock the secrets of long extinct creatures.
Scientists believe that our universe is filled with far more habitable planets than previously thought.
Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu has been working on creating a substance that can be used as a blood substitute.
Scientists have warned that more solar eruptions could follow over the next week or so.
Scientists have warned that future generations could be a lot shorter than people who are alive today.
Scientists have been attempting to learn more about the way a dog communicates by wagging its tail.
Distinguished scientists and astronauts met to discuss asteroid mitigation strategies on Friday.
Neuroscientists have come under fire over the ethics of their new remote control cockroach kits.
A remarkable charred black pebble could be the first large-scale comet fragment ever recovered.
Researchers have passed a crucial milestone in their ongoing efforts to create sustainble fusion power.
Genome scientist J. Craig Venter believes that we will soon be able to design and 'print' organisms.
The UN climate change panel has been considering some unorthodox ways to tackle global warming.
Scientists in China have discovered the earliest known creature that possesses a distinct face.
Physicists have been able to create a form of 'light-matter' reminiscent of the lightsabers in Star Wars.
Scientists are more convinced than ever that they've found evidence of alien life in the stratosphere.