Scientists have reversed signs of ageing in middle-aged and elderly mice by partially resetting the rodents’ tissues to more youthful states, an advance they say may lead to better anti-ageing methods without side effects like brittle bones, weaker muscles or cancer.

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Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid - a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision course with Earth.

Indian researchers have identified fossil bone fragments of sauropod dinosaurs dating back to about 100 million years from an area around West Khasi Hills district of the north eastern state of Meghalaya.

Africa's giant pouched rats have a lesser-known but equally critical vocation - saving lives by speeding up tuberculosis detection.

If you have ever struggled getting hold of a spare part for an appliance, consider the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), where deliveries are not exactly regular, and postage is rather extortionate.

A team of Pakistani researchers claims to have unearthed a 1.1 million-year-old stegodon tusk in the central province of Punjab, potentially shedding new light on the mammal's evolutionary journey.

The gravitational pull of earth is massaging the moon, opening up faults in the lunar crust, researchers say.

Tonight is the night when a supermoon will be coinciding with a lunar eclipse. The next time you’ll have a chance to do so is in 2033.

India today successfully launched a satellite-launch-vehicle carrying ASTROSAT, its first astronomy observatory to study distant celestial objects.

A 113-million-year-old fossil from Brazil is the first four-legged snake that scientists have ever seen.

A woman in Belgium is the first in the world to give birth to a baby using transplanted ovarian tissue frozen when she was still a child, doctors say.

In a new milestone in the chapter of human flight, jetman Yves Rossy and his protégé Vince Reffet fly over Dubai with jetpack.

For the first time scientists create chicken embryos with broad,Velociraptor-like muzzles in the place of their beaks.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai now has an asteroid named after her, the Malala Fund announced Wednesday, reports mashable.com.

The world's only solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse-2 was flying over Chittagong Hill tracts in Bangladesh on its way to Myanmar

Researchers said a sophisticated biochemical analysis of bone collagen extracted from fossils of the two mammals, Toxodon and Macrauchenia, demonstrate that they were related to the group that includes horses, tapirs and rhinos, solving Charles Darwin mystery theory

Microsoft has issued a security warning about a bug that could let attackers spy on supposedly secure communications.