The quality of a performance does not drive the amount of applause an audience gives, a study suggests.

Older male burying beetles work harder at parental care and mating than younger counterparts, a study suggests.

A hairy crab named after US actor David Hasselhoff hitched a ride on an ocean "highway" to colonise deep sea vents in the Atlantic tens of millions of years ago.

The Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn is going to picture the ringed planet in a special photo that also includes a distant Earth.

High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope, strontium-90, have been found in groundwater at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says.

Two junior doctors develop giant 3D animations of human body parts to make medics' lectures more memorable.

A rodent that never gets cancer could hold the key to preventing or treating malignant tumours, say scientists.

Mars' atmosphere could have been rich in oxygen four billion years ago - well before Earth's air became augmented with the gas.