The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic is now the second smallest on record, scientists reveal.

In a crowded laboratory painted in gray and cooled like a cave, half a dozen specialists embarked this week on a historic undertaking: digitally photographing every one of the thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the entire file — among the most sought-after and exam...

American documentary makers are set to descend on the Northern Territory to investigate a spate of UFO sightings. The History Channel plans to send its team of experts Down Under to shoot an episode of the cable television series UFO Hunters. The show contacted the Northern Territory News yesterday ...

Submitted by Waspie Dwarf: Early stone tools developed by our species Homo sapiens were no more sophisticated than those used by our extinct relatives the Neanderthals. That is the conclusion of researchers who recreated and compared tools used by these ancient human groups. The findings cast doubt ...

Some solar flares may be caused by dark matter particles called axions spewing out from the centre of the Sun, new calculations suggest. Solar flares are sudden changes in the Sun's brightness thought to be caused when twisted magnetic fields on the Sun snap and reconnect explosively. But they could...

A soldier's family are frightened out of their home by a spider thought to have been brought from Afghanistan.

Welcome to this week's UFO sighting reports. Here are some that have been sent to me that I think you will find compelling.

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The most sparsely populated county in Wales is Britain's happiest place - but Edinburgh the least happy, say researchers.

Brazil's Supreme Court puts off ruling on the status of an indigenous reserve disputed by Indians and farmers.

Scientists claim gene therapy has the potential to restore hearing in mice, offering hope for humans as well.

He was a charismatic stage clairvoyant and mentalist who came to the attention of the Nazi Party during its rise to power in early 1930s Germany. Erik Jan Hanussen might...

A powerful Nasa space telescope has unveiled an image of the sky viewed through "gamma-ray glasses".

In an absolutely not-meant-to-be-hilarious-but-still-is article, England's Daily Mail blames the show Buffy The Vampire Slayer for declining church attendance by women. In fact, BTVS is so powerful that it caused...

What is Planet X? What proof is there that PX exists? What effect is PX having on the Earth? What may happen in the near future?

Four centuries on and the history soaked Tollbooth in Aberdeen is hardly the perfect place to spend a night.