Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

The mysteries of gargalesis have tickled the minds of people for centuries. Thinkers from the Greek philosophers Socrates and ...

In a new archeological dig, researchers have excavated parts of the Medieval Wall System (MWS), a network of walls and stretches that stretched for 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles) across parts of ...

Non-vegetarians, it seems, may well be kinder and more “normal” than vegans and vegetarians – but their meat-eschewing peers ...

I n May 2015, a wave of death swept over rural Kazakhstan. In the space of just a few weeks, some 200,000 saiga antelopes mysteriously dropped dead. It took years of scientific snooping to find the ...

There are just four villages in the Peruvian Andes where khipus are kept, though the knowledge of how to read them was lost ...

A British toddler has become the youngest ever member of the exclusive high-IQ (intelligence quotient) society, Mensa. The ...

We don’t recommend taking romantic advice from a songbird, but if you did, it might tell you to look after yourself, the kids ...

The tech's goal: to enable conservationists to track wolves, census populations, and reduce human-wildlife conflicts.

Vinegar is on hand in the unfortunate situation that someone gets stung by one of the more deadly types of jellyfish. That’s because, in the case of box jellyfish, vinegar can inhibit nematocysts.

O ver 99.999 percent of Earth's gold is locked away within the Earth’s metallic core, buried beneath 3,000 kilometers (1,864 ...

Our results show that spider venoms have evolved to be especially potent when tested on animals found in their diet in the wild." ...