A new study has demonstrated just how quickly pigs can adapt to tasks that were previously totally alien to them.
A teenager who is starting to wake from a coma caught Covid twice but is totally unaware of what's happening.
A pair of would-be thieves ended up being arrested after accidentally phoning the police themselves.
A strange metallic sphere found near the home of a family in Florida sparked a decades-long mystery.
The ongoing mystery of the metallic monoliths appearing around the world is showing no signs of slowing down.
The iconic telescope, which had shut recently after sustaining earthquake damage, has now collapsed.
Scientists and engineers have been busy developing a next-generation space toilet fit for the final frontier.
Those looking to travel totally beyond the reach of the deadly pandemic may have to venture very far indeed.
A short clip recently posted up on video sharing site TikTok shows a bizarre object hurtling across the sky.
Standing up to three meters tall, Gigantopithecus was the largest ape to ever walk the face of the Earth.
A Canadian company has come up with a new material that can render large objects almost totally invisible.
A stall next to a major highway near the Ecuadorian capital is selling guinea pig-flavored ice cream cones.
Engineers at MIT have accidentally created a material 10 times blacker than anything that has come before.
A daredevil free climber was spotted climbing up the outside of the Shard without any safety equipment.
A Pakistani minister was left red-faced after a cat filter was accidentally enabled on his Facebook livestream.
Surgeons managed to accidentally set a man's chest cavity on fire during an operation in Australia.
Researchers at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in China have photographed a totally white giant panda.
This peculiar photograph shows a room filled with an assortment of totally unrecognizable things.
New research has revealed just how dangerous tall, reflective buildings are to wild birds in large cities.
Scientists have identified and climbed a record-breaking tree in Borneo that measures a whopping 328ft in height.