American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States government...

DNA furnishes an ever clearer picture of the multimillennial trek from Africa all the way to the tip of South America

n Hollywood, anything can blow up. Thanks to this rule, we’ve all had to experience our fair share of explosions that, well, strain credibility a little. And then there are the ones that are just completely...

Scientists have identified a primitive area of the brain that makes us adventurous - a finding which may help explain why people routinely fall for ‘new’ products when...

The pioneering work shows how researchers can investigate the biology of an extinct species by putting its genes in a living organism.

Nasa has cleared the Phoenix Mars Lander for touchdown on the Martian polar icecap on 26 May. The craft is now preparing for the final series of actions that will slow it from around 13,000mph before it descends to the...

A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police said on Wednesday.

Cars and balls seem to roll uphill, people appear able to stand at impossible angles - all in contradiction to the laws of gravity and physics. What’s really happening at these curious...

It’s three and a half years since Erin Hoffman became internet famous. Better known as “EA Spouse”, she was the person who unmasked the crushing working conditions in some parts of the games...

Birth of chicken step by step.Pictures of formation of an embryo.