For the first time, the genomes of the giraffe and its closest living relative, the reclusive okapi of the African rainforest, have been sequenced ...

A tiny stone flake from north-western Australia is a remnant of the earliest known axe with a handle, archaeologists have claimed.

In sci-fi movies, space habitats are huge structures with labyrinth layouts.

Hidden deep within the black innards of a South African cave lay human evolution's equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Inside a laboratory near Vancouver in British Columbia, an alarm is blaring. In the middle of the industrial warehouse stands what looks like a cannon from a spaceship, about five metres long and festooned in wires.

The largest scientific experiment has gone offline because of a foreign intruder.