They delivered a cold stare, then a sharp reprimand and finally gave a rousing shout for Roque Jose Santos to get out of their train car. The pink-striped cars on Brazil's trains and subways are rese...

An engineered virus tracks down and infects the most common and deadly form of brain cancer and then kills tumor cells by forcing them to devour themselves, researchers at The University of Texas M. D...

A urine powered battery the size of a credit card has been invented by Singapore researchers. A drop of urine generates 1.5 volts, the equivalent of one AA battery, says Dr Ki Bang Lee of the Insti...

Secret weapons from World War II, including two prunes, are expected to sell for over £1,000 at auction. Richard Marshall, from Crook in County Durham, is selling the memorabilia which belonged to...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Bra producers have been forced to offer bigger cup-sizes in China because improved nutrition is busting all previous chest measurement records. "It's so different from the past...

A revolutionary system for testing unborn babies for life-threatening diseases has been launched by British scientists. The technique - which is far safer than present methods for detecting conditions...

A question for the men out there: ever find yourself becoming mysteriously aggressive towards rugged, super-masculine men once a month? The reason could lie with your wife or girlfriend - scientists h...

A method of creating super-nutritious but flatulence-free beans has been developed by scientists. Beans are a cheap and key source of nutrition especially in the developing world, but many people a...

China's military is to bar recruits who are heavy snorers and those who have "fashionable tattoos", the official Xinhua news agency says. The report does not say how the army will test for chronic...

A severely disfigured man in China has become the second person in the world to receive a partial face transplant. Experts predict the number of these operations will rise rapidly as centres around th...