The neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy and our own Milky Way are on a rapid collision course that will see them meet four billion years from now.

Contrary to what self-proclaimed cricket fanatics may have you believe, the swing in swing bowling is not enhanced by humidity over the pitch, according to thorough experimentation by scientists in En

Contrary to what cricket fanatics may have you believe, the swing in swing bowling is not enhanced by humidity over the pitch, according to experimentation by scientists in England and New Zealand.

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The first space mission by a private company failed to launch on Saturday after a series of postponements.

Two paralysed patients controlled robotic arms by simply thinking of the movements in an ongoing clinical trial called BrainGate.

A second hard look at a specimen at the natural history museum in London has led to the discovery of “dwarf mammoths” that lived on a Mediterranean island maybe 3.5 million years ago.

After months of deliberation and debate, one of the papers considered a threat to global biosecurity has been published in the journal Nature. It describes four mutations introduced by Kawaoka and his team in making a genetically engineered bird flu virus that can potentially pass from human to human.

The European Space Agency has given a 300 million euro contract to UK space company Astrium to build a sun circling satellite.

A cosmetic gynaecologist in America claims to have found the G-spot while dissecting a cadaver of a recently-deceased 83-year-old woman.

Inside a cave in South Africa archaeologists have found “micro artefacts” serving as evidence for controlled use of fire one million years ago.