The typical way of shooting down incoming missiles tipped with nasty warheads involves using warheads back. But in the event those systems fail, the military now has a back-up: it's called THAAD, or Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, and it protects areas the size of New Jersey using nothing more than kinetic energy.

The first batch of a new range of powerful superconductors which could revolutionize the production of machines like hospital MRI scanners and protect the national grid has been developed by scientists.

Despite the girls-gone-wild image of promiscuous college women, a new journal article suggests that women are actually more sexual in their 30s and 40s.

The world of tomorrow has always tempted the imaginations of today. From personal jet-packs to flying cars, new technology and home appliances have long been promised and predicted by speculators, scientists and others at the bleeding edge of innovation. All too often, however, our hopes and dreams for these products wind up crushed.

This much we know for sure: You do not touch the third rail. You do not betray your closest friends. You do not eat the fuzzy part of the cheese. But above all else, for absolute certain, one thing you really, really do not do: You do not mess around with the female sexual response.

Archaeologists today unveiled a newly-unearthed double tomb of a father and son. The tomb includes two false doors with colourful paintings depicting the two men who served as heads of the royal scribes and were in charge of part of the construction of the Egyptian pyramids.

An aircraft that draws its power from the Sun starts a round-the-clock test flight to assess whether it can fly in darkness.

Lying causes humans emotional stress

The United States population will expand by 100 million over the next 40 years. Is this a reason to worry?

Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy ...