Earth-like planets may be closer than we once thought, according to new research.
Cutting calories certainly may seem harmless or even a good idea when you're at the bar, but could it be dangerous?
A gigantic amount of time at work, and thus productivity, is wasted by surfing the web - this is a fact few will doubt, and now there is another small study using surveys to put some numbers behind it. The prevalence found by the Kansas State University researchers are quite astonishing though, find...
Britain's new Halley VI Research Station can move across the ice on ski-clad stilts, according to researchers.
Casinos are typically known for setting off alarms-usually some lucky soul hits the jackpot or wins a new car, but not at Las Vegas' Excalibur casino. According to reports, a smoky smell sounded the bells and whistles because of an overheated ventilation motor.
A small robotic car with two wheels was "driven" by a male silkmoth, which used it to track down the sex pheromone usually given off by a female mate.
A continuous fight is being pushed to ban female circumcision.
Fish are able to 'smell' how big they are in order to group into shoals with same-sized individuals, according to new research.
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has officially acquired its first images of comet ISON.
Daredevil Felix Baumgartner reached speeds in freefall that were far faster than previously calculated, according to Red Bull Stratos mission scientists.
A large international study sends out a warning to pregnant women: greater exposure to outdoor pollution increases the risk of bearing children with low birth weight.
The 62-year-old Laysan albatross known as 'Wisdom' hatched a chick for the sixth consecutive year on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, reports the U.S. Geological Survey.
