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Scientists have discovered the deepest multicellular life, a worm species, a mile underground in a mine in South Africa, opening the door to the search for complex life in harsh places, including underground and in space.

Scientists analyzing bits of hardened lava from long-ago lunar eruptions found about as much water as in similar magmas on Earth.

Scientists thought a mysterious guinea pig-sized rodent species that hadn't been seen in 113 years was long extinct. Until one of them ambled up to two volunteer naturalists at a nature reserve in Colombia two weeks ago.

Physicist Stephen Hawking believes there is no afterlife, and that the concept of heaven is a "fairy story" for people who fear death.

After working for half a century and spending £500m, scientists last week revealed that they have detected strange fluctuations in Earth's orbit. Space-time is bent and then twisted round our planet as it rotates, announced researchers with Nasa's Gravity Probe B project.

Health risks to Japanese from eating foods contaminated with elevated levels of radiation are fairly low, scientists say.

Scientists have shown how a single protein may trigger autistic spectrum disorders by stopping effective communication between brain cells.

Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it's a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emerging from decades of war....

Scientists in the US have identified the area of the brain which makes heroin addicted rats relapse.

Scientists have estimated the first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy and the numbers are astronomical: at least 50 billion planets in the ...