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 ...

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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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...