A $100,000 prize is being offered to anyone who can successfully preserve a fully functional human brain.
A bus driver had been walking along the street when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed him.
A woefully unconvincing Abominable Snowman has turned up in footage recorded at Formigal in Spain.
A British businessman has come up with a novel new way to make money by selling bottles of fresh air.
The Apollo 14 astronaut became the sixth man ever to set foot on the surface of the moon back in 1971.
A future powered by clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy has taken another step forward this week.
The SpaceX CEO is hoping to see a manned mission to Mars happen within the space of just nine years.
It might not be immediately evident, but humans are actually the only animals on Earth with a chin.
New evidence suggests that Genyornis newtoni was wiped out because it was tasty and easy to catch.
The woman, who goes by the name Nano, claims that she is a cat that has been born in to the wrong body.
A Google-powered artificial intelligence has become the first to beat a human champion at the game Go.
A huge alligator had been living in an Illinois man's basement for the better part of three decades.
A man who has become known as 'canhead' possesses the unique ability to stick objects to his head.
The secret behind the carnivorous plant's success is its ability to count how many times it is touched.
Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that we could face annihilation if we do not colonize other worlds.
Scientists believe that the human brain can remember ten times as much information as previously thought.
The alleged success could mean that plans to perform a human head transplant in 2017 are still on track.
Climbing up a vertical wall like the popular Marvel superhero would actually require size 114 feet.
It is looking as though pensioner Joao Coelho de Souza could be the oldest human being that ever lived.
Man-made global warming is believed to have postponed the next ice age by several thousand years.