The team, from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, designed an experiment to test escape behavior in ...

A trip to a local pond brings a whole new respect knowing the beaked inhabitants evolved when T-Rexes were still around.

The super-low, super-loud songs of flight species like blue and fin whales are the perfect tool: they can attract a female from hundreds of kilometers away, while being acoustically invisible to ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study ...

The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...

B oiling an egg feels like walking a tightrope: misjudge it by just a fraction and you’ll end up with either a snot-like ...

The threat of Asteroid 2024 YR4 has not gone away just yet. The near-Earth object was discovered in December and calculations ...

Do you feel like the day greets you at your best, that you’re at your brightest as you rise from bed but gradually feel less ...

Numerous previous studies have analyzed the composition of pastes and mortars used in ancient Egyptian construction. Some of ...

The most famous image of the Elephant’s Foot was taken in 1996 by Artur Korneyev (sometimes translated as Korneev), a ...