T he bright purple athletics track at the Paris Olympics has fast become one of the Games’ most recognizable features ...

If something makes you jump, it activates what’s known as the sympathetic nervous system. It’s an internal tool that ...

O ne of the oldest dinosaurs ever discovered may have just been delivered by torrential downpours in the southern state of ...

A n uncontacted tribe has attacked loggers using bows and arrows in a contested part of the Peruvian Amazon, according to a ...

In the latest step in the fight against mosquito-borne disease, scientists have sent in the drones. Field trials have seen ...

Recently, the mission team behind NASA’s Perseverance announced the detection of an exciting rock formation. Nicknamed ...

As technological capabilities grow we can use different methods to learn more about the world around us, including the secret ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks has launched a new lawsuit against two multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies for using ...

On November 24, 2009, John Edward Jones, a medical student, visited Nutty Putty Cave with his brother Josh and friends. Unfortunately, while he was trying to find the Birth Canal, Jones entered an ...

This revealed sexual dimorphism – when males and females of the same species look visibly different – to the extreme. Male trilobite beetles lack the trilobite-like appearance, looking like regular ...

J apan has confirmed it has killed its first fin whale in over a decade. A male fin whale, measuring 19.6 meters (64 feet) ...

The deeper water is affected by the Coriolis effect, with plumes spreading asymmetrically according to which hemisphere you ...