The circumstances need to be right, but modeling suggests finding biosignatures in the atmospheres of planets orbiting nearby ...

A single sheep on a Yorkshire farm has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, the UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed. The detection was made during routine surveillance after birds on the farm ...

Just because a research project sounds like a waste of money to people who know nothing of the topic, doesn’t mean it won’t ...

This week, scientists now know how Maria Branyas Morera lived to be 117 years old, further observations have found that a set ...

The second and its definition is fundamental to metrology, the science of measuring things. In fact, the meter, the kilogram, ...

A vestigial trait is something that an organism has that once served a purpose that over time and the course of evolution has ceased to be useful. We see it in goosebumps, which were more effective ...

With PB, the team demonstrated that the liquid robot can pass through jail bars, like Robert Patrick’s T-1000 in Terminator 2. It can also roll on water without breaking apart, grab and move material, ...

Infantile amnesia, as the phenomenon of forgetting life before the age of three or four is technically known, is a difficult ...

"It's time we all realize that we are crew members on this spaceship called Earth and start to think about our role and ...

On seeing a line of footprints made by giant sauropods' front feet only, leading scientists jumped to conclusions, but closer observation doesn’t back them up.

S trange, tiny structures have been found in the rocks around the deserts of southern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

H umans are living longer than ever – but even today, few of us will make it past 100. Even fewer will reach 110, or 115. In ...