A neuroscientist has identified a previously unknown part of the brain that appears to be unique to humans.
It may soon be possible to do away with the remote altogether and change channels using only your mind.
Scientists have used satellite data to map out the terrain hidden beneath the ice of the southernmost continent.
Found in the Amazon rainforest, this incredible arachnid looks like a strange cross between a dog and a spider.
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed an intriguing new sensory illusion.
Researchers have succeeded in hooking together the brains of three people to create a shared network.
Military scientists have created a brain interface that can enable a person to control drones with their mind.
Hundreds of people took to social media to report a set of strange lights hovering over the city on Wednesday.
For the first time in 50 years, an astronaut has voluntarily stepped down in the middle of the training program.
Motorists in British Columbia were less than impressed when sewage started to rain down on their cars last month.
A recent study aimed to find out how marine park dolphins actually felt about their life in captivity.
Hot on the heels of 'laurel or yanny' comes another audio clip that seems to say two completely different things.
A train passenger traveling from Exeter to Bristol claimed to have seen a 'Bigfoot-like creature' in a nearby field.
Jumping spiders are capable of launching themselves six times their body length from a standing start.
The bizarre new experiment aimed to analyze how juvenile crocodile brains react to complex stimuli.
The largest artificial rain experiment ever undertaken will aim to induce extra rainfall over the Tibetan Plateau.
Capable of taking drastic action to protect their colonies, these ants have a rather unusual defense mechanism.
A wildlife photographer recently captured the moment a whale's blowhole spray produced a spectacular rainbow.
Nectome is aiming to preserve the brains of dying people via a process that will prove fatal to the patient.
A leading surgeon believes that we will gain the ability to read each other's minds within as little as 20 years.