SCIENCE

Rome's victory over Carthage set it on the path of rapid expansion.

Russian astronauts Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy will perform the tasks.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will lift an unmanned Dragon spacecraft carrying more than 6,400 pounds of supplies.

The 13-year-old boy is the fourth confirmed shark bite on Hilton Head Island.

The shower produces up to 150 meteors per hour, making it the 'brightest shooting star' displays of the year.

Too cloudy? Too much light pollution? Watch the Perseid's meteor shower live online.

Nasa recently hosted a Reddit AMA, which saw 6 Nasa scientists answer questions about the Great American Eclipse.

Were ancient Puebloans trying to record and celebrate a historic solar eclipse?

Last year, the team located two 'anomalies' inside one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

This majestic 5-metre-tall statue guarded the citadel of Kunulua in the Iron Age.

Nasa says that meteor shower will peak between 11-13 August.

The animals performed like four-year-old human children.

It's a good job fish don't need a license to swim – in winter they're permanently over the limit.

Asteroid has already been spotted flying close to Earth in 2012.

People may not know they have been exposed because bats have such small teeth.

The city in northern Jordan was hit by a deadly earthquake in the 8th century.

There are two planets in Tau Ceti's habitable zone.

Nearly half of people with neuroscience degrees still believe these myths about the brain.

The advert has caused a stir online with some calling it "weird" and others loving it.

Signs of the gruesome rituals were identified in the Russian steppes.

Last mission will take it to the upper parts of Saturn's atmosphere, closest it has ever been to the gas giant.

Titanium suboxide isn't known to be produced by any natural processes.

Inspired by one long distance walker's performance, many experimented with coca tonics.

Many bones bearing strange marks were recovered in Gough's cave in the UK.

Alesi was alive during the Miocene epoch, when apes were a very successful group.

They could glide between trees above the dinosaurs that roamed the ground.

Roger Shawyer has published detailed concept designs for the third generation of the EmDrive.

The air-filtering bike from Dutch designers and cycle startup ofo could help clean up polluted cities.

This will be a part of Nasa's global network of space geodetic stations that measure the size and shape of the Earth.