Scientists discovered the new species, which goes by the scientific name Harriotta avia – avia meaning “grandmother” in Latin ...

The new report argues that the following planetary boundaries have already transgressed beyond the “safe operating space for ...

How well-fed the insects are could affect their “mating filter" (and no, this shouldn't be extrapolated to humans).

The Judge’s Choice Winner was awarded to Andrea Williamson for her image of some of the rarest fish in the world. Though they ...

The beautiful orange and blue Guam kingfisher ( Todiramphus cinnamominus ), also known as the sihek, has been extinct in its ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience ...

T he Three Mile Island power plant is remembered today as the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history, but it may be ...

E xperiments at the Large Hadron Collider have shown that top quarks, the heaviest of all elementary particles, can end up ...

It could be gravitational lensing, where space-time is warped by immensely heavy objects, sometimes magnifying objects far ...

There’s a clue about how to do that in the natural behavior of comets. As sunlight heats a comet’s ice until some turns to ...

P ythagoras was a smart guy: sure, he had some pretty rogue beliefs about beans, but the man knew his triangles, something ...

While a lot of Mars and the Moon are accessible to rovers and human explorers, certain areas – like craters with steep embankments – are a lot more challenging to access. This is unfortunate, as ...