It is easier to find your geographical middle if you only need to deal with one nation. Still, there are plenty of methods to ...

The answers revealed a strong association between lactose intolerance and nightmares. It could be, then, that the ...

Despite their mistreatment by popular culture, Norway lemmings turn out to have an interesting evolutionary history.

A genus of around 20 burrowing frog species found mostly in South Africa is famous for its members' short limbs, flat, ...

A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

Further evidence has emerged that 8,000 years ago, women had at least as much status in society as men, at least in one of ...

This dramatic shrinking is the phenotypic manifestation of a change to the cod genome that’s been brought on by overfishing. That’s the message from a new study that has demonstrated, for the first ...

The study could help us hone in on what causes this strange phenomenon, making it feel like you are outside of your own body.

I t's been six months since two not-quite dire wolves were born on Earth around 10,000-12,000 years after the extinction of ...

Measured against that, the Kakeya conjecture – a problem stemming from a 1917 thought experiment by Japanese mathematician ...

Nevertheless, nature still has the ability to surprise us. Take the shoebill, for example: a bird so bizarre, it almost ...