Gladiatorial combat often saw participants pitted against wild beasts as well as human combatants.
A short video clip shows a series of large footprints indicating a stride much greater than that of any human.
Known as 'bodyoids', these Frankenstein-esque creations could help to solve donor organ shortages.
A leading British space scientist maintains that it is a practical inevitability that we are not alone in the universe.
The SpaceX CEO seems confident that Starship will be ready to carry humans to Mars in the very near future.
Sesame has released a demo of its new AI voice and it has left the Internet both amazed and disturbed.
A company in Poland has created a humanoid robot with life-like synthetic muscles and translucent skin.
The project is designed to pave the way toward a sustainable human settlement beneath the surface of the sea.
Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time and whether or not it even exists at all.
The Moon is seen as a 'stepping stone' to sending humans to Mars - but could we realistically skip it ?
Could comet-dwelling trees provide safe, habitable 'bubbles' of life that travel through the cosmos ?
Designed to provide companionship to those who can afford it, this new human-like robot is eerily life-like.
The image, which is said to show a large humanoid creature, has recently been the subject of some heated debate online.
It looks as though we're going to be waiting a little bit longer to see humans walking on the surface of the Moon.
Palaeontologists have discovered a previously unrecognized species of ancient human that lived 100,000 years ago.
Footprints left 1.5 million years ago show that two distinct relatives of modern humans would have co-existed.
Biologist Prof Tim Coulson has suggested that one species in particular has the potential to dominate the planet.
Humans have long held superstitious beliefs concerning animals that are pure black or pure white in color.
The psychic discovered the skeletal remains of a person behind a bowling alley, but there was a twist in store.
The faster you can get a crew to Mars, the better - but conventional propulsion systems may not be up to the task.