Researchers turn brain waves from thoughts of words into actual words, in a breakthrough that could benefit comatose and locked-in patients.

Some male spiders voluntarily "castrate" themselves during sex in order to increase their chances of fathering offspring, according to a new study.

Women who take certain ulcer drugs have a small increased risk of hip fractures in later life, particularly if they smoke, US research suggests.

Three Mozambicans are sentenced to 25 years each in a South African court for rhino poaching, according to the South African national parks body.

A former engineer at a Scottish nuclear site has told of how a colleague lost his dentures after sneezing inside a reactor building.

An Australian biology professor is causing a rumble in the academic jungle by suggesting his country should import elephants and even Komodo dragons into its wild interior.

The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted decades before the event, research suggests.

Police in Chile arrest a man suspected of stealing blocks of ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier.