Screening IVF embryos for defects risks the lives of multiple birth babies, according to a study published today.

Giant rainforest trees, tiny fungi and wild coffee plants are among almost 300 species that have been described by UK botanists for the first time in 2009.

A revolutionary new device that reads a person's thoughts and turns them into speech could soon change the lives of paralysed patients around the world.

NASA has released a stunning photograph of Saturn's moon Titan

DURANT, Okla. - The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has a new weapon in the preservation of their descendant's culture and heritage - two certified tribal crime scene investigators

As if getting bitten by a velociraptor wasn't enough, scientists Monday announced the discovery that an off-shoot of the feared carnivorous dinosaur also spit venom into its prey.

As the new millennium approached, people around the world anticipated problems with computer systems crashing. Rather than writing software that used four-digit year codes, early computer programmers were limited to using two numbers to keep program file

Archaeologists working in Akron, Ohio, claim to have found the world's oldest three-dimensional representation of Santa Claus.

he 3-ton camera inside VISTA houses 16 special detectors with a combined photographic power of 67 million pixels (for reference, high-quality cameras in cellphones can take 3 million pixel images).

By modelling the behaviour of stars in clusters, the Bonn team finds that they are ideal environments for black holes to coalesce.