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Review of latest genetic evidence suggests infectious diseases are tens of thousands of years older than previously thought, and that they could jump between species of ‘hominin’. Researchers says that humans migrating out of Africa would have been ‘reservoirs of tropical disease’ – disease that may have sped up Neanderthal extinction.

Another celestial object has been found in a group with strangely similar orbits, implying they are shepherded by something - possibly a mysterious ninth planet

SCIENTISTS are one step closer to cloning dinosaurs after the discovering the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was pregnant when it died.

Two leading tech figures wrestle with how humanity should deal with looming moral questions.

A controversial Vatican trial of journalists and alleged whistleblowers resumes Monday, in the latest instalment of an image-bruising legal saga. From Monday, lawyers on both sides of a case increasingly seen as a public relations own goal will be able to put some of Pope Francis's closest aides on the stand. Francesca Chaouqui, a pregnant former PR adviser to the Vatican, is one of five people accused of leaking classified documents that revealed out-of-control spending at the top of the Catholic Church and some top clerics' love of luxury.

Apps, classes, and studios are bringing in big money.

Vladimir Putin's 'friend' and RT founder Mikhail Lesin was found dead in £170-a-night in Washington DC last November and sustained blunt force trauma to head

A major step was taken Thursday in the U.S. government's plan to hand off oversight of the Internet domain name system. A nonprofit international group approved a plan and forwarded it to the Obama administration Thursday for review and approval.

More than half of the average American diet is composed of so-called ultra-processed foods, a new study finds.

A tourist has killed a swan — by dragging it out of a lake for a picture. The woman, reportedly from Bulgaria, was snapped grabbing the bird by its wing before dragging it out of the lake in …

Tourists in Argentina killed a rare baby dolphin after grabbing it out of the water so they could take selfies, according to Central European News. La Plata dolphins often swim close to the shoreline — and the calf was scooped up on the shore of the Santa Teresita beach resort in Buenos Aires. A huge crowd passed around the squirming dolphin for photos, but dolphins can’t stay out of the water for long, and the animal died from dehydration.

TOKYO (AP) — After battling radioactive water leaks for five years at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, the utility that ran it says it will need another four to finish the job.

Prehistoric global warming wiped out the ichthyosaur, a toothy, dolphin-like reptile that disappeared from Earth's oceans tens of millions of years before the last dinosaurs, researchers said Tuesday. Some scientists have thought that ichthyosaurs may have been beaten in a competition for food and living space by rival reptiles or fish, or that their prey itself had gone extinct. On Tuesday, a European team of researchers said they had solved the mystery by comparing the fossil history of ichthyosaurs with geological records of climate change.

San José (AFP) - Space shouldn't be the privileged domain of big countries but a frontier open to all, astronauts and scientists gathered in Costa Rica said Monday. "Thirty years ago, when we were in space, we all looked out the window and saw our blue planet," said Bill Nelson, a US senator and former astronaut who participated in a 1986 voyage on the space shuttle Columbia. Nelson and other members of that mission were invited to San Jose by another crew member, US-Costa Rican astronaut Franklin Chang, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of that shuttle expedition.

Finnish authorities are investigating a mysterious "highly exceptional" spike in levels of radioactive caesium-137 detected over Helsinki, officials said Tuesday. Nuclear safety regulator STUK said that while the radioactive surge last week posed no danger to human health, it was keen to get to the bottom of the cause. "The detection was highly exceptional but from a nuclear safety perspective this level of caesium does not have any effect on human health," Tarja Ikaheimonen, the head of radiation surveillance at STUK, told AFP.