Mary Anning did not have a university degree, a laboratory or a prestigious scientific title. She had a hammer, sharp eyes and the dangerous cliffs of Lyme Regis. Born in 1799, Anning grew up on ...

These are 34 things to do in Phuket for families, couples, solo travellers, foodies and adventure seekers, from beaches and ...

Corals poop out of their own mouths, and that's just the beginning! In this episode of the Wild Critters USA series on Orbit, ...

Leaning against the wall in a frame in his spartan office, waiting to be hung, is a reprint of John F. Kennedy’s typed notes ...

There is an orange that belongs to Chennai, the orange of kanakambaram. Then there is a particular shade of violet that is ...

A one-year-old girl was diagnosed with cancer after doctors dismissed her symptoms as constipation. Florence Wilde’s parents Anna Chattaway and Dom Wilde, both 32, were told it was just ...

Why would a scientist get excited about 20,000-year-old poop? In this episode of the Wild Critters USA series on Orbit, families join the U.S. National Park Service discovering what mummified mammoth ...

OVER a dozen John Lewis homeware products have been urgently recalled over fears they contain asbestos. Shoppers have been urged to stop using the affected items immediately, and keep out of ...

Why does the "poop emoji" look the way it does? Physics has the answer: as most animals defecate downward, each new coil falls a shorter distance, naturally forming the familiar tapered swirl. A new ...

The poop emoji accurately captures the typical poop shape in nature formed by the downward pull of gravity. According to a new study, exceptions to this rule—antigravitational poop—suggest that ...