The team, led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Ardem Patapoutian, alongside Li Ye of Scripps Research and Bosiljka Tasic ...

This is what’s known as the "Purple Earth Hypothesis", an idea first proposed by Professor Shiladitya DasSarma, molecular ...

“Our new model mimics human foetal blood development in the lab. This sheds light on how blood cells naturally form during ...

After centuries of anecdotal accounts, an app and enthusiastic citizen scientists finally give us some answers on how birds ...

While exploring the seafloor, the team spotted something eerie swimming in the distance. As the camera moved closer, the ...

YouTuber Steve Mould found a weird effect with chains. It needed testing in space, and that's where astronaut Don Pettit ...

Gastric-brooding frogs incubate their eggs in their stomachs, as the name suggests. Doing so involves neutralizing the acid ...

The fossil cave system in Richards Spur, Oklahoma, is believed to be home to some of the oldest stalagmites in the world.

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a ...

A ll manner of deep ocean creatures live beneath the waves, from funky disco worms to octopuses and just about every manner of tentacled creature you can think of. Off the coast of Uruguay, a deep-sea ...

O n a small stretch of land near the Kenya-Somalia border lives the world’s rarest antelope, a curious-looking, “four-eyed” animal called the hirola that once roamed the region’s grasslands in the ...

We thought hippos went extinct in Central Europe around 115,000 years ago, but new fossil finds tell a different story.