Scientists will have to take “enormous intellectual leaps” to develop an AIDS vaccine in the coming years, say researchers clearly frustrated by the failure of a once-promising...

Scientists are hailing a new drug to treat aggressive prostate cancer as potentially the most significant advance in the field for 70 years.

Scientists may have found a way to test for and possibly avoid the most serious side effect of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, one of the top-selling medicines in the...

Palaeontologists have unveiled an extraordinary prehistoric ‘flying’ reptile which lived 235 million years ago.

Scientists have determined that a carcass found on a beach on Massachusetts’ Nantucket island is a great white shark.

Once reluctant to share their work with the media, scientists are now enjoying all the attention they”re getting, seeing it as a reward for their labour.

Caltech scientists are working on intelligent exploratory craft which could investigate alien worlds without human instruction. This research is excellent news for fans of space research, robotics, and science writers who fist-pump and...

Scientists are eagerly awaiting a much-needed facelift planned for the world’s favorite space telescope. This fall NASA astronauts plan to take a final space shuttle trip to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope...

Endangered species may become extinct 100 times faster than previously thought, scientists warned today, in a bleak re-assessment of the threat to global biodiversity.

A while back scientists were making revolutionary breakthroughs in stem cell research. Unfortunately they fell foul of interpretations of thousand year old texts in foreign...