The story of the Endurance is an archetypal tale of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. It began in 1914 when the ...

This surprise intruder was far too small to do global damage, but it would have been nice to have some warning.

Our eyes are tuned to only a tiny proportion of the electromagnetic spectrum, but it’s where the Sun is brightest.

T he winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine are Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance". The prize is ...

This is an amazing discovery for the potential habitability of the moon’s ocean. The Cassini observations have shown that ...

It was an unusual contribution to the growing body of evidence that bowhead whales, as well as being among the largest whales ...

Lab-grown meat is, technically, real meat (depending on how you define “real”) grown from animal cells in a controlled ...

Out of the 2,483 remains recovered, many of them could be expected. There were 2,117 bone remains – bearded vultures are the ...

The earliest sighting connected to Nessie by some goes back all the way to 565 CE, with a strange tale from Saint Columba, ...

I n a massive win for organ transplantation research, scientists have demonstrated that they can successfully change the ...

A nimal life is a recent addition to Earth, relatively speaking. The planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago, with ...

The ocean quahog is a pretty unremarkable-looking clam, reaching around 5 centimeters (2 inches) in size, and yet it can take ...