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Big CAT scan: London Zoo treats lion with earache
How do you treat an endangered 12-year-old lion with persistent earache? Normally, the answer is: wi...
Tough nut to crack: UK mulls contraceptives for gr...
They have been the scourge of trees and the native red squirrel in Britain since their introduction...
The James Webb Space Telescope, by the numbers
The most powerful space telescope ever built, James Webb is set to deliver its first full-color scie...
James Webb Space Telescope opens its eyes on the U...
Space enthusiasts are holding their breath.
Renovate the Casbah: Efforts speed up to restore h...
A UNESCO-listed rabbit warren of 16th-century battlements and Ottoman palaces, the Casbah of the Alg...
Festivals, guesthouses breathe life back into old...
Children's cries echo through the alleyways as they hunt for hidden treasure -- part of growing effo...
NASA reveals Webb telescope's first cosmic targets
NASA said Friday the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope will include unpreceden...
Oldest European human fossil possibly found in Spa...
A jawbone fragment discovered in northern Spain last month could be the oldest known fossil of a hum...
Cameroon's mushroom growers looking beyond the kit...
Grilled on skewers, dried or used in hair oil: farmers at Bafoussam in western Cameroon are seeking...
Using lasers and 'tow-trucks', Japanese firms targ...
From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying...
NASA releases James Webb telescope 'teaser' pictur...
NASA has a provided a tantalizing teaser photo ahead of the highly-anticipated release next week of...
Musk says doing 'best' to boost birth rates
Elon Musk said Thursday that he was helping combat falling birth rates after it was reported that he...
'In the mouth of dragons': Melting glaciers threat...
As dawn broke over Javed Rahi's Pakistani mountain village, a loud boom shattered the silence and a...
EU Parliament backs green label for gas, nuclear
The European Parliament approved on Wednesday a contentious EU proposal giving a sustainable finance...
Ukrainian becomes second woman to win Fields maths...
Ukraine's Maryna Viazovska paid tribute to those suffering in her war-torn country on Tuesday when s...
Ukrainian becomes second woman to win Fields math...
Ukraine's Maryna Viazovska paid tribute to those suffering in her war-torn country on Tuesday as she...
Rescuers gather body parts after Italy glacier col...
Emergency services at the scene of a deadly avalanche in the Italian Dolomites recovered what body p...
Freeze-dried mice: how a new technique could help...
Japanese scientists have successfully produced cloned mice using freeze-dried cells in a technique t...
Italy blames climate change for glacier collapse,...
Italy's prime minister on Monday linked the collapse of the country's biggest Alpine glacier to clim...
Large Hadron Collider revs up to unprecedented ene...
Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing...
US drought exposes murky mob past of Las Vegas
Mobsters who end up sleeping with the fishes are usually never seen again.
Fossil discovery solves mystery of how pandas beca...
The discovery of panda fossils in China has helped researchers solve the mystery of how the giant sp...
Independent Algeria turns 60, but colonial-era wou...
Algeria marks 60 years of independence from France on Tuesday, but rival narratives over atrocities...
Climate activists glue hands to Van Gogh frame in...
A pair of environmental protesters in Britain on Thursday glued themselves to the frame of a Vincent...
DR Congo set for final ceremony for Lumumba remain...
The scant remains of DR Congo's fiery independence hero Patrice Lumumba were to be interred on Thurs...
Webb telescope: NASA to reveal deepest image ever...
NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Wednesday the agency will reveal the "deepest image of our Unive...
Hong Kong economy faces uncertain future 25 years...
When Hong Kong transitioned from British to Chinese rule, Edmond Hui was a floor trader at the bustl...
Sony launches PC gaming gear, expanding beyond Pla...
Japan's Sony is launching a new brand that will offer PC gaming gear, the company announced Wednesda...
Early human ancestors one million years older than...
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previousl...
Former Nazi camp guard, 101, gets five-year jail s...
A German court on Tuesday handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentrati...
A promise kept or betrayal? Hong Kong 25 years on...
As midnight struck on June 30, 1997 and Hong Kong transitioned from British to Chinese rule, pro-dem...
Roman-era mosaic back in Israel as centrepiece of...
Israeli authorities on Monday dedicated a new museum near Tel Aviv to a magnificent Roman-era mosaic...