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There's a weird type of 'ice' found in the ocean that burns when exposed to a flame - and scientists think they've finally solved the mystery of how this strange substance forms under the sea.

If you're a germophobe who wants to use a public bathroom ever again, you might want to stop reading this.

Sometimes our phones end up in the toilet bowl, or laptops end up covered in tea. It happens.

A non-invasive, low dose vaccine that redirects an uncomfortable and sometimes life-threatening immune response to peanuts might one day save human lives.

Giving adolescents a few more minutes of shut-eye in the morning might not only make them better rested for their studies, it could provide a much needed boost to their wellbeing.

Since it's discovery was announced in August of 2016, Proxima b has been an endless source of wonder and the target of many scientific studies.

Once every 53.5 days, NASA's Juno probe screams over Jupiter's cloud tops roughly 75 times as fast as a bullet.

Every so often, neutron stars do something really, really weird. The rate of their rotation abruptly changes. This is called glitching, and we don't know what causes it - but now astronomers have observed it for the first time using a radio telesco

A trio of satellites studying our planet's magnetic field have shown details of the steady swell of a magnetic field produced by the ocean's tides. Four years of data collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Swarm mission have contributed to the mapping…

A crazy optical illusion is breaking the internet this week – and no, it's not just another version of that dress.

When fossil collector Paul De la Salle discovered pieces of a giant bone on Lilstock beach in Somerset in May 2016, he didn't realise he had stumbled on a clue to a near 170-year-old mystery.

The first of my three-part episode on robots. I look at what makes a robot a robot. I answer the question: will robots take your job? and I have some fun doi...

The third and final part of my series on robots. Are robots going to cause the apocalypse? How will the government handle killer robots? Should we build smar...

Elon Musk says SpaceX is going to try to land a rocket stage with … wait for it … a "giant party balloon."

The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japanese dump, could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis

A new proposal describes how to use SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to intercept the next interstellar visitor to Earth's solar system.

Scientists have discovered that tiny diamonds found inside a meteorite show signs of originating in a lost planet - one that dates back to the earliest days of the Solar System.

Eeeeeek.