NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity that beat newcomer sister probe Curiosity to an area containing water-formed clay minerals, has found…
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Sir John Gurdon, whose work cloning frogs in the 1950s and 60s led to the later creation of Dolly the…
Astronomers have discovered what may be five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the closest single star beyond our solar system whose…
A British attempt to search for life in an ancient lake beneath the Antarctic ice-sheet has run into trouble.
Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind of…
More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and thousands of years after they were written…
By Chris Wickham A paralyzed woman has been able to feed herself chocolate and move everyday items using a robotic…
Nasa appears so confident about their prediction that the world will not come to an end that they have released…
“I wish they all could be California microbes,” is not something that the Beach Boys sang. But perhaps they should…
Ebb and Flow, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission probes, are being sent purposely into the lunar surface…
In case you haven’t heard, the world ends tomorrow. Friday 21 December 2012 is the date that the Maya Long…
It is the world’s biggest haul of human fossils and the most important palaeontology site in Europe: a subterranean chamber…
SpaceX founder/Tony Stark movie inspiration Elon Musk made some heads turn this week, as heads are wont to do when…
Scientists trying to unravel the mystery of life’s origins have been looking at it the wrong way, a new study…
By Jim Miklaszewski and Alan Boyle The object that North Korea sent into space early Thursday appears to be “tumbling…
What is it that has struck in Värmland? SOS, police and air rescue center has received calls from concerned Värmlandsbor…
The notion of the “new normal” of extreme weather is a farce, according to a recent report by the environmental…
Light reflected by the Amazon rainforest’s vegetation could help an orbiting satellite find the elusive fertile patches of soil known…