There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence. That is the bad news at the center of a new s...
A group of researchers from the Stony Brook University (the State University of New York) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has disco...
A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has identified the first sensor of the Earth's magnetic field in an animal...
Fossilised remains of a new bat species, which lived 16 million years ago, walked on four limbs and was three times larger than today's average ba...
Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Zürich and the University of Wa...
Kangaroos prefer to use one of their hands over the other for everyday tasks in much the same way that humans do, with one notable difference: general...
Lightning dart across the sky in a flash. And even though we can use lightning rods to increase the probability of it striking at a specific location,...
The gut microbe Akkermansia muciniphila may hold the key to better metabolic health and healthier body fat distribution in people who are overweight o...
Neandertals became extinct about 40,000 years ago but contributed on average one to three percent to the genomes of present-day Eurasians. Researchers...
Scientists at the University of Southampton have found a way to pry into the private lives of fish - by looking in their ears. By studying ear stones ...