Ian Sample

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will circle the planet and measure minute levels of atmospheric gases.

Physicists have drawn up plans to put a living organism in two places at once in a radical demonstration of quantum theory.

Scientists in China have genetically modified human embryos that has re-ignited the debate over the ethics and safety of genetic therapies.

Scientists are finding that various parts of the human body wind down at different rates, writes Ian Sample.

An apparent gas attack in Damascus is thought to be the most significant use of chemical weapons since the gassing of Kurds 25 years ago.

There comes a time in some men’s lives when the days seem darker and the only sensible response is to blow their life savings on a sports car.

The first time Sunita Williams climbed aboard the international space station, she had with her a bib from the Boston Athletic Association.

A new study has found that cues are picked up at a subconscious level and trigger a neurological response associated with past learning.

The search for the arcane, theoretical particle known as the Higgs boson has occupied thousands of researchers for more than two decades.

Ancient inscriptions on the walls of a looted house in the Guatemalan jungle are the oldest astronomical charts known from the Mayan civilisation.

Scientists are at odds over tests that some say could be used to make a biological weapon.

<em>Jungle Book</em> author Rudyard Kipling has had his name bestowed upon the skull of the forerunner of the saltwater crocodile in England.

Nasa astronauts’ brain scans, who returned from space after a month, have shown dangerous abnormalities that could hamper future space trips.

Fossilised remains of stone age people recovered from caves in China may belong to a new species of human that survived until the dawn of agriculture.

The remains of giant Jurassic fleas that sucked the blood of ancient animals more than 100-million years ago have been discovered in Mongolia.