Most of the coverage of Europe’s weather over the last week or so has been, rightly, focused on the so-called, ‘Beast from the East’ and the...
A basking shark-like fish — only the size of a sardine — is helping paleontologists better understand the earliest branches of the vertebrate family tree. The...
Space is a dangerous and unforgiving place, and spending time away from gravity takes its toll on the human body, as many astronauts have found out...
Regions of low-oxygen and no-oxgyen in Earth’s oceans are growing in size and number, according to a new study — the most comprehensive survey of ocean...
Scientists at a leading laboratory in the United States are using a cutting-edge form of X-ray to scan inside an Egyptian mummy that has never been...
A fragment of bone claimed to be from St Nicholas – the 4th-Century saintly inspiration for Father Christmas – has been radio carbon tested by the...
An astronomer in Australia has published a new map of the cosmos’ high-velocity gas. It’s the most detailed map ever of the universe’s fast-moving molecular clouds....
An asteroid that visited us from interstellar space is one of the most elongated cosmic objects known to science, a study has shown. Discovered on 19...
Scientists have successfully performed a head transplant on a corpse, and are ready to do it on a living person, according to the man famous for...
They’re pickier tenants than you’d think: Bugs are ideally looking for carpeted, airy, ground-floor residences in wealthier neighborhoods, and pets and even filth aren’t really so...
