For black holes, there appears to be very little room for mediocrity, astronomers have found.

The amazing work of the "Indiana Jones of medicine"

Fruit juices may not be as healthy as thought - they could reduce the effectiveness of some medicines, it is claimed.

A humpback whale calf separated from its mother and trying to suckle from boats off Sydney, Australia, is weakening, observers say.

A scientist who bought a fossilised insect on the web auction site eBay finds that it belongs to a new species.

French birds are moving northwards in response to climate change, but not fast enough, a study suggests.

Meet Gordon, probably the world's first robot to be controlled exclusively by living brain tissue. Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon's primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unveiled the neuron-powered machine on Wednesday.Their groundbrea...

A Colorado couple researching the shroud dispute radiocarbon dating of the alleged burial cloth of Jesus, and Oxford has agreed to help them reexamine the findings. The tie that binds John and Rebecca Jackson is about 4 feet by 14 feet, woven of herringbone twill linen. It once led to their romance;...

The solar system as we know it is a bit more crowded due to the recent discovery of an intriguing new "minor planet." The object, dubbed 2006 SQ372, is a kind of tailless comet that's currently some two billion miles (three billion kilometers) from Earth, a bit closer to the sun than Neptune. But th...

On Sunday August 10, 2008 I was taking some photo's of the castle ruins at Brigenorth and didn't notice anything unusual at the time but when I printed them out the following day it became clear that I had taken a photo of something travelling at speed which would explain why it appears blurred.

Why lack of water will make it hard to feed ourselves

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Author Ann Moura celebrates her birthday today, August 20. Ann is known as the "Green Witch" and has written several books on her tradition of witchcraft, as well as a...

The claimed recent discovery of Bigfoot in the US state of Georgia has turned out to be a gorilla suit in a block of ice.

Recently, I read an interesting article about UFOs in Cuba, which is a country we rarely hear from when it comes to extraterrestrial related material. The article tells us...