It's just a little sting, so slight often the victim doesn't even feel it.

China has about 705 million internet users — more than two times the U.S. population.

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.