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An ambulance worker who won an unfair dismissal case recorded a boss talking about "pummelling" him.

Author Josh Barry spent nine years writing book while also completing two degrees.

Until now squid tentacles have been bad news for other sealife but scientists believe that they could offer a replacement for plastic - and save more fish than they kill.

In many developed countries, mosquitoes are a nuisance that also have the potential to be carriers for disease. In areas where malaria runs rampant, however, they are a lethal threat that claims lives.

Before Tyrannosaurus rex became the towering king of dinosaurs, its other tyrannosaur cousins were much smaller, roughly the size of a deer.

The Earth's atmosphere stretches way past the Moon, much farther than previously believed, says a new study published in Space Physics.

Say hello to Hippocamp, a celestial pipsqueak that's making big waves at the edge of our solar system. With help from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the existence of this tiny moon in orbit around Neptune.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - No one would ever look at the huge and ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex as an underdog. But its newly discovered evolutionary great uncle certainly was.

The asteroid or comet that smacked into Earth 66 million years ago might not be the only culprit behind the dinosaurs' demise.

In 1985, the chemist Steven A. Benner sat down with some colleagues and a notebook and sketched out a way to expand the alphabet of DNA.

Melissa Mead takes the ashes of her son William in a teddy bear to Buckingham Palace to collect an MBE.

Tyrannosaurs weren't always tyrants. For millions of years, the ancestors of the regal T. rex were relegated to second-class predator status while a different dinosaur dynasty ruled over what is now North America: towering allosaurs.

Marine biologists working to save the world's coral reefs say that they are increasingly being affected by human activities. As a result, the marine biologists now need to include an assessment of the effects of activities, perhaps in distant markets ...

We take daily weather reports for granted here on Earth, but their mundane utility just got some out-of-this-world competition from NASA's InSight mission, which is now providing reports on temperatures and wind speeds from its home at Elysium Planitia.

Lucy Evans had encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain that caused her frightening delusions.

NASA has warned SpaceX and Boeing Co of design and safety concerns for their competing astronaut launch systems, according to industry sources and a new government report, threatening the U.S.

The former Congressman said finding “life on another world” was a priority for the agency. He was speaking at an event held at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the agency's centre for robot interplanetary missions.

A Japanese spacecraft is to attempt an audacious smash-and-grab manoeuvre on a speeding asteroid in an attempt to collect samples and return them to Earth.

WASHINGTON: The lunar surface could act as a 'chemical factory' that produces the ingredients for water, making it easier for future human colonies on the Moon to sustain themselves, Nasa scientists have found.

IMAGE: The different components of the setup are shown, including the NIST frequency comb or "astrocomb", designed to ensure the precision of starlight analysis at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas.