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...
When it comes to aliens it’s hard to hazard an educated guess at what they might look like – given that we haven’t actually proven their...
According to planet formation theory, NGTS-1b should not exist. The exoplanet is too big — so big that scientists are calling it a “monster” planet. NGTS-1b...
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials have developed a new method for making glass more invisible. Under most light conditions, glass gives its...
Scientists from The Open University (OU) have discovered a process that could explain the long-debated mystery of how land features on Mars are formed in the...
An ancient human skull discovered in Papua New Guinea is likely to have belonged to the world’s oldest-known tsunami victim, scientists say. The skull was discovered...
The search for biology on neighbor planet Mars won’t play out like a Hollywood movie starring little green men. Rather, many scientists agree if there was...
Seismologists were caught off-guard by back-to-back earthquakes that shook Mexico earlier this month. But then again, they weren’t. While decades of research has helped scientists better...
Mammalogist Tyrone Lavery heard rumors of a giant, possum-like rat that lived in trees and cracked open coconuts with its teeth on his first trip to...
Planets grow by a process of accretion — a gradual accumulation of additional material — in which they collisionally combine with their neighbours. This is often...
