Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic chlorine-containing chemical discovered in Martian soil during various space ...

Syria's religious minorities - Christians, Druze, Yazidis, and Alawites -are being subjected to a systematic campaign of ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have investigated how bacteria that can mould Martian soil into brick-like structures fare in the presence of perchlorate, a toxic ...

For all its flaws, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond still delivers one stellar sequence in Ice Belt.

Barren Island, the only active volcano in the Indian subcontinent, rises dramatically from the Andaman Sea, offering a stark ...

Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent might they resemble or represent ordinary humans?

What Farage and Trump are feeding off are not the practical arguments but the cumulative paranoia they have themselves ...

In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old ...

In the English-speaking world the art form is in a perennial battle for hearts and minds. Two contrasting books from either side of the Atlantic ask why ...

The concerns over Australia’s two first-choice pacemen are heightened given Pat Cummins (injury) and Mitchell Starc (retired ...

In the middle of an armed attack in a remote community in western Sudan, the penny dropped for Adelaide man Brendan Ross.

North Carolina holds treasures that go way beyond the typical tourist brochures and highway billboards you see advertised.