Billionaire Richard Branson's latest creation met the press today in the California desert. Branson and legendary designer Burt Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X-prize for reaching suborbital space five years ago, unveiled SpaceShip..

Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, "The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today ...whether they realize it or not,

The sleek black-and-white vessel represents a gamble with a sky-high price tag to create a commercial space and tourism industry. The company hopes the winged, minivan-sized SpaceShipTwo, will rocket space tourists into zero gravity within just...

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NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of asteroids and comets on a collision course with Earth. This spacecraft mission was recommended by Sunstroke author David Kagan, a US aerospace engineer.

The snowman is 10 µm across, 1/5th the width of a human hair. The snowman was made from two tin beads used to calibrate electron microscope astigmatism.

An Italian-led team of scientists talk of a breakthrough in thought-controlled prostheses that connects an artificial limb through electrodes.

MACHINE operator John Rutherford is used to digging objects out of the ground, but he was shocked when he came face-to-face with an 8,000-year-old beast.

At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests.