Opposable thumbs: one of the features that separates us from other apes, a contributor to the tool use that's made us the dominant species on the planet. Makes you feel quite smug, right? Well, not so fast.
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that keep on working even while they're stretched up to eight times their original length.
Egyptologists say they believe they've established the truth about the death of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III 3,000 years ago. And, just as an ancient papyrus suggests, they say, conspirators murdered him by slitting his throat.
Almost 80 years after Einstein referred to quantum entanglement as ‘spooky action at a distance’, scientists have found a new form of entanglement involving three particles instead of just two.
British academics are denying a report by the Daily Telegraph that they have conclusive evidence that a body found beneath a Leicester parking lot is that of Richard III.
As more electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids hit the streets, one of the challenges will be managing the power grid requirements for these cars when they are having their batteries recharged at all hours.
A University of Oregon scientist has made the controversial claim that ancient multicellular fossils long thought to be ancestors of early marine life are in fact land-dwelling lichen or other microbial colonies.
