With over 8 billion people in the world, it takes something truly unique to stand out. Some people, however, go above and ...

In a remarkable achievement that is already impacting how we detect and diagnose disease, UK Biobank has completed the ...

There's a new Guinness World Record holder for how fast someone can do math. Aaryan Shukla -- who has been dubbed "the human calculator" can solve complex problems in his head in seconds.

Jan Hoover had to use her opera glasses to look up to the tallest man in the world, Robert Wadlow, 8-foot 8 1/2 inches, at October 14, 1938. (Getty Images) ...

So it's perhaps no surprise that the probe recently tied its own world record as the fastest thing human beings have ever made, with a clocked speed of 394,736 miles, or 635,266 kilometers, per hour.

British engineer-turned-micro artist David Lindon created the world's smallest ever Lego piece, which is about the size of a human white blood cell -- and a Guinness World Record.