Giant comets could destroy life on Earth at any moment
Giant comets could destroy life on Earth at any moment and are a much greater threat to our existence than asteroids, says a team...
Cameras fitted to penguins show us how they hunt and live
Cameras fitted to Adélie penguins by researchers for the French and Japanese national Antarctic programmes show us how they hunt and live. The tiny...
Mars gullies caused by trapped gas and not water say scientists
The gullies observed on Mars that got everybody excited because they thought they were caused by rivers of water, were more likely the result...
SpaceX makes history blasting off into space and landing in same pad
SpaceX makes history by blasting off a Falcon 9 rocket into space and landing its first stage in the same pad in an upright...
Birds never go grey process on clothing and paint colours that never fade
Birds never go grey because of the structure of their feathers – this process could be used to make clothing and paint colours that...
Startled reindeer bolts out of Tesco car park after car horn blast
A startled reindeer bolted out of a Tesco car park during a Christmas event at Carlton Hill in Nottingham on Sunday after hearing a...
Clothing and paint colours that never fade using process from birds
Clothing and paint colours that never fade, using the structure that birds have in their feathers to create multi-coloured plumage, could probably be used commercially,...
US fighter jets with laser guns and shields by end of decade
US fighter jets will probably be equipped with laser guns and possibly a shield too, meaning they will be able to take out small...
Presumably extinct sea snakes found off Western Australia coast
Two species of presumably extinct sea snakes have been discovered by scientists and a wildlife officer off the coast of Western Australia. Zoologists from...
Animal life exploded on Earth after oxygen built up not other way round
Animal life exploded on Earth after oxygen built up over a 100-million-year period, and not the other way round, says an international team of...