Google has acquired Boston Dynamics, a company that builds robots that mimic the movements of humans and animals with stunning…
Findings published today in the journal Oikos show how some monkeys consume their 'five a day' within a single hour and consume…
He has co-founded a Monaco-based team with Gildo Pallanca Pastor, owner of electric carmaker Venturi Automobiles. Formula E racing starts next…
When we look at the night sky, the stars we can see are within our own galaxy. But there are…
A US animal rights group is calling on a New York court to recognise a chimpanzee as a legal person,…
Less than a half-hour before he died in a fiery crash, “Fast and Furious” actor Paul Walker posed for a…
Frederick Sanger, who won two Nobel Prizes for his work on DNA and protein sequencing, died yesterday, according to a…
The skeleton of an ancient aristocratic woman whose head was warped into a deformed, pointy shape has been unearthed in…
NASA's newest Martian explorer is on its launch pad in Florida, ready to soar. The Maven spacecraft was scheduled to blast…
Snakes have no eyelids. Instead, they have spectacles—modified, transparent scales that cover and protect their eyes. The spectacles are criss-crossed…