Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and ...

T he Moon was volcanically active for a long time, but if we look at its mysterious far side, we now know exactly how long ...

The world’s largest coral colony has been discovered in the Solomon Islands, measuring a whopping 34 by 32 meters (112 by 105 ...

F or the first time, scientists have recovered the mummified, frozen body of a juvenile saber-toothed cat from the Arctic ...

T he fossilized remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, complete with footprints of extinct animals, have been discovered ...

Testing a product – whether it be a potentially life-saving drug, a household chemical, or even a cosmetic – on animal ...

Three-month-old kit Roxie had recently lost her mum, Ginger, but appeared to be doing well. That changed on November 5; in ...

S ome animals have a curious way of emitting light that we humans can see when we shine a blacklight on them, a pastime that ...

For the snail that gets darted, it’s not good news; a 2015 study of the land snail species Bradybaena pellucida found that ...

In other words, the terrifying ambiguity of the death whistle apparently ignites the imagination as the brain struggles to ...

The supermassive black holes have a combined mass 40 million times that of the Sun and they are about one light-day away from ...

This week on Break It Down: turns out the one time we saw Uranus it was having an uncharacteristically windy moment, new ...