Picture of an old man enjoying a coffee and reading a newspaper unperturbed gets 19k likes.
Nottingham University is hoping to study the one-in-a-million snail but it has no mate to produce lefty babies with.
A display of shooting stars will be visible tonight for the second evening in a row.
This year's shower expected to be disappointing with just 15-20 meteors per hour.
Hong Kong has shut all essential services including banks, schools, stock market, transportation and courts.
Following the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, Mount Aso erupted in October and is likely to do so again.
Teeth found in Tanzania show that Homo habilis was right-handed like most modern humans.
Hypothetical planet could explain long-standing mystery of Solar System.
Rising temperatures have led to reduction of glaciers surface in the Bolivian Andes by 43%.
If you're getting the Merlot, you might as well get the Roquefort too...
Failure of Schiaparelli to land will put ExoMars 2020 and the search for life at risk.
A look back at what the physicist has said about artificial intelligence.
The super typhoon's intensity has, however, been lowered to level 4 from the highest level of 5.
Hayward and Rodgers Creek Faults are connected beneath San Pablo Bay and could produce a magnitude 7.4 earthquake.
By pounding two stones against one another, the monkeys create sharp-edged flakes.
Six flares from two sources that lasted just one minute before decaying were discovered in archival data.
Descent and landing of Schiaparelli was performed to test technology for ExoMars 2020.
Judges selected winners that exemplified artistic quality as well as exceptional scientific technique.
Scientists record extreme stellar winds from stars in binary system smashing into each other.
Tomb on Pohnpei shows how Pacific islanders invented a new society with one single ruler.
FSB chairman Mark Carney in 2015 had asked regulators to address the carbon bubble concerns immediately.
China has transformed the life chances of more people more quickly than anywhere in human history.
The spacecraft, carrying two astronauts, was launched from the Gobi desert.
Population of Tasmanian devil has fallen by over 80% because of devil facial tumour disease.
Unsustainable practices are driving mammals to extinction and threatening human food security in the long run.
Tim Laman's vertigo-inducing shot of an orangutan high above the rainforest has won him Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016.
Combined findings from DNA records and prehistoric cave-art allows researchers to retrace the elusive bovine footsteps.
Surge in volcanic activity along East African Rift System coincided with arrival of Homo sapiens.
Orphaned orangutans at the IAR centre in West Borneo learn important skills at 'baby school'.
Call comes after a silverback briefly escaped from London Zoo last week.