You might not expect there to be many health lessons from an animal so distant from us in time and evolution, but new ...

I n most (but not all) cultures, it’s incredibly rude to ignore a sneeze – it has to be publicly acknowledged with a go-to ...

T he animal world is full of contradictions, from tiny mouse-deer that are neither mice nor deer, to vampire squid that ...

Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

Gracanin told IFLScience that most of what we know about greater gliders is based on people peering up 15-40 meters (49-131 ...

Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

A while back, the Internet was puzzled by a physics problem involving a set of scales, an iron ball, and a ping pong ball of equal size. Now that that one has been cleared up, Reddit has been mulling ...

The work of Everett Senior shook up the world of linguistics and aroused a fair amount of controversy. He used the Pirahã ...

T he US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has set a new distance record for wireless energy ...

These are the unfortunately final moments of victims of the Uloboridae spiders, a family of orb weavers that, unlike almost all other spiders, don’t inject venom. Without their own built-in lethal ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) offices in Fairbanks and Juneau issued the initial heat advisory on June 12, followed by an updated advisory on June 16 warning of temperatures up to 29.4 to 31.1°C ...

S cientists have developed the longest and most complex simulation to date of a binary neutron star collision that results in the formation of a black hole and a jet. The breakthrough will massively ...