It sounds like something dreamt up by a science fiction writer, but scientists have created a walking 'bio-bot' made from rat heart cells and hydrogels, using a 3-D printer.
The great white shark isn't descended from megatooth sharks such as the extinct Carcharocles megalodon - the largest carnivorous shark that ever lived - as many believed.
Our early ancestors in Central Africa, between three million and 3.5 million years ago, munched mainly on tropical grasses and sedges - a much earlier change in diet than previously believed.
In a blow to the highly-popular theory of supersymmetry, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have spotted one of the rarest particle decays ever seen in nature.
A new study suggests that humans may be (slowly) losing our intellectual and emotional abilities because they're at risk from mutation or loss from the genome.
The CERN supercollider could become the world’s most precise stopwatch, thanks to a new method of keeping time devised by researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU), Austria.
Before DNA became Earth's primary genetic material, early forms of life are believed to have used RNA to encode genetic instructions. But what was doing the job before RNA came on the scene?
Scientists say they've - rather belatedly - identified a completely new type of large, horned dinosaur after re-examining fossils originally collected in 1958.
The first modern humans may have evolved on the south coast of South Africa, where they were making and using stone weapons far earlier than previously believed.
