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For 25 years Germans have joked that Bielefeld does not exist - so now the city is fighting back.

Radio-frequency identification, famously used to bug the US embassy in Moscow, is a cheap way to track objects and data.

The Kcymaerxthaere is our global link to a ‘parallel universe’. So why don't more people know it exists?

Spectacular images from a new microscope spark a "revolution" in biology

Ben Shenton was raised in a cult that thought the world would soon end. It didn't - but one day his world abruptly changed.

Japanese scientists celebrate the successful deployment of their solar sail Ikaros.

The mass of pumice, the size of Manhattan, is believed to come from an underwater volcano near Tonga.

After a decade as a Buddhist monk, Andy Puddicombe set up Headspace with one of his clients.

How should you travel to reduce your carbon footprint?

How much has been spent on foreign military intervention in Afghanistan over the past two decades?

This project enhances the experience of your Drupal content editors for Gatsby sites using Drupal as a data source.

The drug combination has huge potential and would cost just "pennies a day", say the researchers.

Lucie's new school uniform is on the dishevelled side by the end of the five-year-old's first day.

Lured by a food from her childhood, a woman returns to a country that no longer exists to confront her family’s secret past.

Marvel at some of the highly commended images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

The death of Osama Bin Laden prompted jubilant scenes in the US, which reflected both what he had done, in ordering the 9/11 attacks, and what he had come to represent, the BBC's Tom Geoghegan writes.

Fertility experts find that the left testicle is warmer, but only when a man has his clothes on.

A historic global agreement aimed at halting deforestation and curbing dangerous carbon dioxide emissions has failed, according to a report.

An amateur astronomer has discovered a comet that could have come from a distant star.

"We are stuck here at the waterfall,” said an SOS note found in a green bottle

The Pure Nacional tree once at the heart of South America’s chocolate industry was believed to have been lost forever – until it was recently rediscovered by accident.

The reconstructions offer the first glimpse of what the Denisovan looked like.

They're not coming through the windows - they were already inside.

Youngsters under 10 report being "grossed out" and confused by what they have seen, says BBFC.