A parrot with the uncanny ability to replicate the sound of a fire alarm prompted an emergency call-out recently.
The futuristic X-59 will be able to travel at supersonic speeds without producing a deafening sonic boom.
NASA has shared an image of a distant galaxy cluster that looks quite a bit like the iconic Star Trek vessel.
The FBI has used 3D-printing to recreate the decoy heads used by three men to escape Alcatraz prison.
On November 16th 1974, the Arecibo Observatory sent a message of greeting towards globular star cluster M13.
An experimental nuclear fusion reactor in China has achieved a temperature six times hotter than the Sun.
For the first time ever, scientists have found an impact crater beneath one of the Earth's continental ice sheets.
It may soon be possible to do away with the remote altogether and change channels using only your mind.
Two divers came across something extraordinary during a recent excursion off the coast of New Zealand.
It turns out that Pinocchio was wrong - your nose doesn't grow when you lie, it actually gets colder and shrinks.
Scientists have used satellite data to map out the terrain hidden beneath the ice of the southernmost continent.
The haunting musical creation was algorithmically produced to celebrate 5,000 Martian sunrises.
Motorists this week were met with the unusual spectacle of dozens of salmon swimming across a highway.
Found in the Amazon rainforest, this incredible arachnid looks like a strange cross between a dog and a spider.
Named Zippy, the new arrival, which was born last month, is one of only two known 'zonkeys' in the UK
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil remains of a herbivorous dinosaur dating back 110 million years.
Footage from Scotland shows a car that has somehow become wedged lengthways between two bollards.
Spiritual guidance counsellor Amethyst Realm has taken her otherworldly relationship one step further.
The unnerving statues, which date back 800 years, were unearthed in the ruins of the ancient city of Chan Chan.
Scientists have created a device that can levitate small objects even when something else is in the way.