SpotMini, Boston Dynamics's dog-like quadruped robot, is back, and it's learned a new trick.

Atomic clocks are capable of the most precise physical measurements humanity can make, but because they're so complex, they've been restricted to laboratory use - until now.

There's an isolated, unknown realm that's been cut off from light for so long there's no telling what could survive in its freezing, dark waters – but it looks like we won't have to wait too long to find out.

Roughly half a century ago, Cornell astronomer Frank Drake conducted Project Ozma, the first systematic SETI survey at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

If you're preoccupied with infidelity, new research may help set your mind at ease.

In the midst of one of the worst flu seasons in several years, a Japanese pharmaceutical company says it has an experimental drug that could make next winter a lot less sickly – not to mention safer.

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We have a problem. A serious one. At any moment, a life-threatening global pandemic could spring up and wipe out a significant amount of human life on this planet.

Satellite data measured across a 25-year period shows that not only are the seas rising, they're rising faster and faster – an acceleration that is on track to double the jump in sea levels by 2100 compared with a fixed increase year-on-year.

The modern medical era began when an absent-minded British scientist named Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find that one of the petri dishes he forgot to put away was covered in a bacteria-killing mould. He had discovered penicillin, th

A parasitic eye worm called Thelazia gulosa is pretty common in the northern US and southern Canada - at least in cows.

Most of us won't ever get to see a baby octopus hatching in the wild, but luckily Virginia Aquarium managed to film it happening in captivity, and have share it online for everyone to enjoy.

At the very centre of the image above is something incredible - a single, positively-charged strontium atom, suspended in motion by electric fields.

Arizona native Michelle Myers woke up two years ago sounding like she'd just come back from a very long vacation.

Obviously travelling at warp speed isn't a natural state of existence for most terrestrial organisms, but we never knew just how harmful the effects of maximum warp velocities could be on human beings – until now.

Researchers have directly observed the scattering electrons behind the shifting patterns of light called pulsating auroras, confirming models of how charged solar winds interact with our planet's magnetic field.

Archaeologists in Sweden have unearthed human remains of a type never before found in Scandinavia.

They say money can't buy happiness, but let's be honest, they say a lot of things – and they're not always right.

She told doctors that she wanted to breast-feed her baby.

A new technique for measuring the mass of galaxies has been applied to our closest galactic neighbour - and it has found that the Andromeda galaxy is roughly the same size as the Milky Way, and not two to three times bigger as was previously though

The next time you're standing in a motel bathroom staring at the previous guest's hair inside the drain, maybe with a nail file in your hand and a look of nauseous determination on your face, consider: