It could be gravitational lensing, where space-time is warped by immensely heavy objects, sometimes magnifying objects far ...

There’s a clue about how to do that in the natural behavior of comets. As sunlight heats a comet’s ice until some turns to ...

T he Three Mile Island power plant is remembered today as the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history, but it may be ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience ...

The remarkable video joins a select archive of megamouth shark footage, including a 2023 world-first sighting of two megamouth sharks together. As for why they were hanging out, one theory is that ...

While a lot of Mars and the Moon are accessible to rovers and human explorers, certain areas – like craters with steep embankments – are a lot more challenging to access. This is unfortunate, as ...

P ythagoras was a smart guy: sure, he had some pretty rogue beliefs about beans, but the man knew his triangles, something ...

M ixed-species hunting packs comprised of octopuses and fish have been observed working together in the wild to improve predation success. It's been thought that the brainy octopuses would naturally ...

According to the World Health Organization, anxiety disorders are the world’s most common mental illness, estimated to have ...

We’ve found a lot of ways to make use of this strange property of certain crystals, but the most important effects were here ...

S urviving for around 400 years, the Greenland shark is the world’s longest-living vertebrate – but little is known about its ...

A team of researchers have won a coveted Ig Nobel Prize for tossing coins hundreds of thousands of times and proving that coin flips are not 50/50 after all.