Long-lived bacteria, reproducing only once every 10,000 years, have been found in rocks 2.5km (1.5 miles) below the ocean floor that are as much as 100 million years old.

Public opinion towards science has made headlines over the past several years for a variety of reasons — mostly negative. High profile cases of academic dishonesty and disputes over funding have left many questioning the integrity and societal value ...

Training in RTS games such as Blizzard’s Starcraft is said to give a boost to cognitive flexibility

It took decades for global warming to slowly melt the surface of the Larsen B Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, forming nearly 3,000 lakes. But at the end of the Antarctic summer of 2002, all the lakes drained away in the space of a week. And the ...

More than 100,000 people are eager to make themselves at home on another planet -- Mars, says an organization planning the manned missions.

Human tests of an electrode implanted deep into the brain could one day lead to smart, self-regulating implants.

Bill Henningsgaard, 54, was on board his own plane with his 17-year-old son Maxwell when the plane came down near Connecticut's Tweed New Haven airport.

Earlier today, President Obama held a press conference to address the growing public concern over the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices. We are glad to see that the Administration has been forced to address the matter publicly as a re ...

A dog may be man's best friend, but dolphins can imitate human actions, and even how they solve problems, according to a recent study.

In 1945, a U.S. naval ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine, but the ship's sinking was just the beginning of the sailors' nightmare.

A team from the University of Washington has unveiled a comprehensive portrait of the genome of the world’s first immortal cell line, known as HeLa. The cell line was derived in 1951 from an aggressive cervical cancer that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 3 ...

A a deadly new strain of bird flu called H7N9 has killed at least 43 people and infected a total of 134, mainly in western China, according to the World Health Organization. The outbreak in humans...

Every year thousands of them are boiled or torn apart while they are still alive, and now there is strong evidence to suggest that crustaceans experience pain. That was the stark message delivered by Robert Elwood, an animal behaviour researcher at Q ...

"In less than three seconds, you’re breathing faster to take in oxygen. Your heart is racing to pump it around your muscles so you can flee. You’re sweating to stop overheating, and your pupils are dilated to spot other enemies. You even stop di ...

It doesn’t look like much, but scientists from Sweden’s Uppsala University are calling a newly created form of magnesium carbonate an “impossible” material.

On Friday, a baffled hacker community got a firsthand lesson in just how bizarre sexism in the tech industry can be. LinkedIn and Toptal, a small developer networking platform, essentially played a round of credibility chicken over Toptal's adve ...

It's not a secret that the FBI has used hacking methods in the past to spy on suspected criminals, including keyloggers and remotely turning on microphones in mobile phones, in order to spy on suspected criminals. However, the Wall Street...

Wikipedia is taking steps to make its site ‘unsnoopable’ to the NSA following revelations that its site users were being spied on. The measures will include the use of secure encryption for its logged-in users to minimize eavesdropping.

Scientists in China say they have successfully grown a human tooth using stem cells taken from urine.

US scientists have introduced a concept design of the 'Cornucopia' or Digital Fabricator, a 'personal food factory' able to print food from specified ingredients, with no waste at the point of cooking.