Over 20 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope looked at a little patch of sky for days, with this methodical approach ...

At first glance, the Iberian ribbed newt’s defense might seem fairly standard fodder for an amphibian; like several species ...

It’s just as well conditions like this are not common, or 18th-century geologists might have never made sense of Earth's ...

A man born with Usher syndrome type 1b, a rare genetic disease that causes congenital deafness and progressive blindness, has ...

Much like the Wallace Line, this mysterious deep-sea divide in the Atlantic shows us that the ocean is not a continuous ...

D ormant cancer cells in the lung could be reactivated after a bout of COVID-19 or flu, according to new research. The ...

I t is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, ...

A new species of stick insect has been discovered in Australia, and it’s an absolute whopper. Named Acrophylla alta, it’s ...

A hundred years ago, explorer Percy Fawcett went in search of a lost city deep in the Amazon rainforest. His quest to find “The City Of Z,” as he called it, was inspired by a mysterious “Manuscript ...

A Blue Moon can be defined as a monthly one (the second full Moon in a calendar month) or a seasonal one (the third full Moon in a season). Similarly, you can have a monthly Black Moon, happening ...

A giant marine reptile that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Germany. Retrieved from the world-renowned Posidonia Shale fossil beds, the newly named Plesionectes longicollum ...