European-Russian spacecraft are on course for Mars on a daring mission to find evidence of life on the Red Planet.
Drug cheating will not disappear, experts say, as long as a competitive spirit remains part of human nature.
Nasa's discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet has social media buzzing about the chances of finding a faraway world.
The more scientists learn about Ceres, the sphere circling our Sun between Mars and Jupiter, the weirder it becomes.
Thousands of people marched in Lima, urging world leaders to ensure a global switch to 100-percent clean energy by 2050.
Fuel that froze on a Soyuz rocket caused two satellites from Europe's troubled Galileo navigation system to be placed into the wrong orbit in August, a probe concluded. ...
A new study challenges the theory that Europeans introduced TB to the New World, where it killed millions of indigenous Americans.
Scientists have long wondered whether bats could read the pattern of sunlight scattered in the atmosphere to orientate themselves to Earth's magnetic field.
Some of the Higgs boson's newly discovered properties have left physicists scratching their heads, writes Mariette Le Roux.
General anaesthesia before the age of one may impair memory later in childhood, possibly life-long, a study has found.
Worried scientists say they have found four new ozone-destroying gases in the atmosphere, most likely put there by humans.
How monkey uses only its thoughts to manipulate a sleeping fellow primate's arm to do its bidding.
Humans acquired Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding which resulted in Europeans and East Asians, scientists believe.
Genetic material recovered from skeleton dug up in Spanish cave reveals strange combination of dark skin and blue eyes.
The last common ancestor of Man and Ape was not a knuckle-walking hominid resembling today's chimpanzee, says study.
Though the stakes are high, no specific targets have been set for this round, hosted by one of the world's biggest coal polluters.
Scans have revealed “profound abnormalities” in the brain activity of retired American football players, a study said.
Paris - Scientists studying the H7N9 bird flu virus that has killed more than 40 people since March said Wednesday they had discovered another H7-type virus lurking ...
Sugar is toxic for mice in dosages that in humans would equal a “safe” diet that includes three cans of soda per day, scientists said.
Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular fireball show when Earth hits a belt of comet debris known as the Perseids, astronomers say.
These abnormally resilient cells were taken from Henrietta Lacks shortly before she died and used for decades without her family's knowledge.
Europe launched its first space weather coordination centre to raise the alarm for possible satellite-sizzling solar storms.
As we live longer, bigger chunks of our lives are marred by illness, with non-infectious maladies claiming ever more victims.
All countries, rich and poor, were moving “recklessly slow” on reducing emissions, said a report issued on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Doha.