If you thought driverless cars are part of a distant past, think again.

Polish astronomers have captured an incredibly rare event from start to finish: a white dwarf going nova.

Museum collections are riddled with valuable specimens.

Keeping food inside our bellies instead of the bin.

Scientists zoom in on your generosity, and it could help us understand psychopaths.

Anthropologists have shown that Mayan tablets of math and astronomy have been greatly underestimated.

Leftover food from the Olympic Village in Rio is being prepared by a group of international chefs and served to...

Belemnites were extinct cephalopods with a squid-like body.

High winds and a low demand on a Sunday allowed Scottish windmills to generate 106% of the country's electricity demand.

Archaeologists working on top of a Greek mountain have made a sinister discovery.

It's perhaps the stinkiest cheese in the world right now, after molding at the bottom of a shipwreck for centuries.

A small tooth in a fecal sample confirms that the fierce predator ate its young.

The Perseids are taking place in this period, and this year promises to be an especially good one.

Social media analysis spots the real Trump twitting.

How did people get to America, and when? A new, 'pioneering and neat' study may have some answers.

Elon Musk has shown plenty of times in the past that he's not afraid to go a bit outside the...

Someone is celebrating St. Patrick's early this year.

In 1912, palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and the amateur antiquarian Charles Dawson made a stunning announcement, which turned out to...

Garden grass could become a source of sustainable energy, a group of scientists claim.

Who knew that governments can make people happier?

Six million Americans might be drinking water with high levels of chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems.

There's a physics expert inside all of us, though deeper in some than in others.

Researchers from Portugal believe they finally have the answer.

Europe tops the list.

About one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption -- 1.3 billion tons -- is wasted.

The Olympic Games in Rio are shaping up to be an absolute nightmare.

The chilling diary of a monster.

It may or may not be Arthur's castle, but it's a monumental finding.

Improve quality on Facebook? Yes please!

Loud screamers compensate for small testicles... but it works.

Let's toast to eco-friendly grapes!

We finally know what caused the huge, Earth-sized red spot on Jupiter.

Big data is paving the way for a new generation of studies.

It's simply amazing.

Corpse flowers are blooming much faster than usual.

The European Science Open Forum (ESOF) has come and gone, but its echoes still resonate. It's one of the biggest...

No joke, no trick - the tree you see blow grows 40 different types of fruit.

We have touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it is us—extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions...

A 1 in 87 billion chance.

The UK seems hell bent on making unfortunate decissions.

Energy.

It is alarming to see such emblematic species slide towards extinction

Painkillers in the opium family (most notably morphine) may actually make pain last longer, a new study reports. Morphine treatment after a...

It's just as crazy as it sounds.

Pornography is still a taboo in most communities, especially in religious ones. Almost without exception, religious people will deem it...

Researchers working with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii have made a stunning discovery: they found evidence of water clouds around...

The night light burns bright.

Smart devices are quickly taking over our lives, but they may also be giving away our secrets.

Two new massive 350MW arrays in the Netherlands will supply power to Dutch people at €87/MWh, which translates into under...

The United Kingdom will almost certainly miss its 2020 targets for renewable energy, the National Grid has said.