Rudyard Kipling was right - leopards and other big cats have had to change their spots in order to survive.

A new study boosts suspicions that a child's risk of allergies could be linked to the season that coincides with the first three months of pregnancy.

A team of astronomers has discovered the most distant object in the universe - a galaxy 13 billion light years away.

A head-on collision by a NASA spacecraft last year has confirmed the presence of ice and other frozen compounds on the surface on the Moon, according to scientists.

They may be as small as grains of salt, but US researchers are developing batteries that pack the power of their larger kin.

Plants, especially some trees under stress, are even better than expected at scrubbing certain chemical pollutants out of the air, researchers report.

The January earthquake in Haiti failed to release all the tension in a notorious seismic fault, leaving its capital exposed to the risk of another seismic disaster, according to US scientists.

A Japanese man has joined the elite club of humans whose genetic code has been fully sequenced, according to research unveiled today.

NASA has released its findings from an investigation into the crash of a multi-million dollar balloon in Alice Springs earlier this year.

The ability of forests to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has been overrated, according to a new study by US and Australian scientists.

A floppy robotic hand that stiffens when air is sucked out, much like a vacuum-packed brick of coffee, may form the basis of a new type of robotic gripping mechanism, U.S. researchers say.