A woman thought to be the world's oldest living human has referred to her extremely long life as a 'punishment'.
A recently discovered cache of Assyrian cuneiform tablets has helped to reveal the location of a lost city.
A prototype autonomous racing car recently battled it out with drifter Ryan Tuerck at the Formula E race in Rome.
Visitors to a US state park in Utah have been inadvertently destroying fossil dinosaur footprints.
A new company is planning to rejuvenate dogs with the eventual goal of attempting the same thing in humans.
Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas is now able to run and jump outside without being tethered to anything.
A train passenger traveling from Exeter to Bristol claimed to have seen a 'Bigfoot-like creature' in a nearby field.
The US space agency has emphasized that its Moon ambitions will not distract from its efforts to reach Mars.
Jumping spiders are capable of launching themselves six times their body length from a standing start.
This fascinating optical illusion by mathematician Kokichi Sugihara has left Internet users scratching their heads.
Her nightmarish experience began when the inquisitive insect crawled in to her ear while she was asleep in bed.
Scientists have been looking to the past to help them determine the whereabouts of the elusive ninth planet.
Authorities in Calgary have been investigating the mysterious death of a man found in a public lavatory.
Dylan McWilliams defied the odds after being attacked by all three animals within the space of just three years.
Hashtag-like etchings found on a rock in South Africa's Blombos Cave are thought to be over 100,000 years old.
According to Goldman Sachs, asteroid mining has the potential to produce the world's first trillionaires.
NASA has revealed that its ambitious Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will launch as early as 2022.
The wreckage of one of Germany's most advanced U-boats has been discovered off the coast of Denmark.
In a rare case of natural selection in modern humans, the free-diving Bajau people have developed a larger spleen.
Could there have been an advanced civilization on our planet long before mankind appeared on the scene ?