Grim milestone falls earlier in calendar than ever before

The finding could eventually lead to breakthrough treatments for obesity

The event will be good way of assessing 'our capability to work together in response to finding a potential real asteroid threat', the space agency said

Research finds women's cognitive performance improved relative to men's in countries that abandon traditional attitudes towards gender roles 

There's only a 10 per cent chance we'll avoid widespread drought, extreme weather and dangerous increases in sea level

The 'protein reactor' is the size of a coffee-machine and currently takes a fortnight to produce a spoonful of powder 

Something that all regular fliers will be familiar with in the pre-flight safety announcement is what to do with the oxygen masks. 

One of my daughter's favorite books is "Space Walk" by Salina Yoon. Each page shows a planet accompanied by a rhyming factoid about it.

Solar-powered material can suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into a source of energy

‘A perfect example is the controversy over climate change ... the failure of people to understand that this is real science, and it’s just as scientifically valid as the fact that we’re going to have an eclipse of the sun on August 21’

Scientists now want to see if preventing delirium could help reduce dementia 

But gin was found to massively increase chances of developing the condition in women

‘You shall not leave alive anything that breathes. But you shall utterly destroy them’

Research on mice suggests disease does not wipe memories, but makes them harder to access

Karl Kruszelnicki says everything can be explained by human error, bad weather, and heavy air and sea traffic – not alien abduction or energy beams from the lost city of Atlantis

As the number of these cells declines naturally over time, or if their function is disrupted, the body’s organs and metabolic processes age faster and death occurs earlier

Ruling by American Psychoanalytic Association prompts re-consideration of Goldwater Rule

Its final days are giving us some of the most confounding data and pictures ever seen

'People who hire a cleaner or pay the kid next door to mow the lawn might feel like they’re being lazy, but our results suggest that buying time has similar benefits for happiness as having more money'