The experimental tower has reportedly been built in Xian, in the Shaanxi province and is currently undergoing testing.
Madagascar is home to all the world's 113 lemur species with 90% of wildlife on the island found nowhere else on Earth.
Caihong juji was about the same size as a duck and lived 161 million years ago, according to scientists.
Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has mocked advice to Australian tourists to watch out for polar bears.
The new discoveries shed light on a key period of the early Viking age – when a new runic alphabet came into use.
Using eight different telescopes from around the world, including one at the south pole, scientists are working on the first-ever image of a black hole.
Bonnethead sharks can survive on a 90% plant-based diet, according to a new study. It means they are omnivorous, unlike the rest of their evolutionary cousins.
Some extraordinary celestial moments are lined up in 2018. IBTimes UK has compiled a curated list to help you catch the best ones.
Liz Williams, a resident of Victoria, Australia captured this stunning footage between two highly venomous snakes.
Data given by Princeton glaciologist Michael Wolovick shows that large walls at the mouth of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will effectively isolate them from the sea.
People who humblebrag often are seen as untrustworthy and less likeable in general, but most people humblebrag some time or the other.
A week after flash storms sent mud cascading through mountain slopes, progress is slowly being made with the massive clear-up operation.
The image was taken by Juno spacecraft during its 10th close flyby of the planet. Jupiter looks to have cut in half in this beautiful image.
Nasa and NOAA are keepers of the world's temperature data and according to them, they independently produce and record the planet's surface temperatures.
The earthquake struck off the coast of Peru at 09:18GMT (04:18 local time) on 14 January.
The Ministry of Antiquities claims they took over the San Al-Hagar archaeological site after previous foreign missions did not conduct sufficient excavations.
Nasa satellite images show the contrast between the desert sand and flaky snow in breathtaking images from space.
The pits were discovered by astronomers assessing images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
Greenhouse gasses can wreak havoc in an atmosphere and Venus is an extreme example.
Palaeontologists were able to digitally reconstruct every bone of the dinosaur's skull, allowing them to study features like nerves, never described before.
The Moche society which lived in northern Peru from the 1st to the 8th centuries preceded the Incan civilisation and Hispanic conquest.
Scientists found that when spinning protons collide with a larger gold nucleus, the neutrons switch directions to the left instead of the right.
United Launch Alliance's Delta IV rocket lifted off from the Vandenberg air force base, launching the NRO's secret spy satellite into space.
40 years ago today, NASA revealed its first astronaut class consisting exclusively of women. These astronauts would reach posterity not just as "NASA girls" but as groundbreakers.
While astronomers have predicted this type of event before, it has never been observed directly in a distant galaxy.
The technology works in much the same way as Global Positioning Systems on Earth, albeit on a cosmic scale.
New study warns that the rhesus monkeys in Florida carry a virus that deadly to humans: Herpes B. The state wants to get rid of the animals to avoid contamination.
Professor Con Slobodchikoff hopes to develop technology that will allow pets and their owners to communicate effectively for the first time in history.
Paul Tymstra took the photo while on a training session as he was preparing his descent into Charlottetown, the capital of Prince Edward Island.
Astronomers have captured "burps" in the past but this is the first time a supermassive black hole has been caught burping twice.
