A potential new male contraceptive drug has just undergone its first tests in human volunteers. The results give the first ...

Sharks with frickin' lasers are tired news. Peacocks, apparently, are where it's truly at. Famous for their dazzling iridescence, peacock feathers are known to contain nanostructures that scatter ...

A bolt of lightning that arced across the sky from Texas to Kansas in the fall of 2017 has officially smashed the record for ...

Researchers have now found that those with the poorest sleep rhythms may face a 2.8-times-higher risk of Parkinson's disease, ...

The earthquake near the east coast of the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia on 30 July 2025 generated tsunami waves that have ...

In July 2024, the peak of the Northern Hemisphere summer, heavy rainfall and thunderstorms battered much of Mexico. This came ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...

According to a new study, humans can inhale more than 70,000 microplastic particles each day in an indoor environment – far ...

Breast cancer patients who have been in remission for years or even decades may still need to be cautious about respiratory infections.

In a galaxy some 450 million light-years away, a brilliant flare of light revealed a probable black hole that suddenly woke from its slumber to snack on a passing star.

The ancient Romans might have taught us a thing or two about manufacturing sustainable concrete that lasts for thousands of ...

A build-up of meltwater under the Greenland ice sheet in 2014 resulted in a flood of such magnitude that it burst upward ...