A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

With Halloween just around the corner, thousands will be shopping for fancy dress contact lenses to go with their costume.

Ice excavated from deep under the surface of Antarctica has just yielded humanity's oldest directly dated samples of glacial ice and air ever found.

A pregnant woman's blood sample taken in 1972 was mysteriously missing a surface molecule found on all other known red blood cells at the time.

Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, new analysis suggests.

While Halloween offers a chance to embrace all things spooky and supernatural, the real terrors this season aren't confined to ghost stories.