O ne of the largest collections of human and animal bones ever seen in a Roman feature in Britain has been discovered inside ...

In the very early hours of January 10, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will attempt the inaugural launch of its massive orbital ...

Japanese rice fish – also known as medaka ( Oryzias latipes) – are a small, unassuming species that live wild in the ...

Interest in tubal ligations and vasectomies has shot up, especially in states making moves to restrict abortion.

Pull your ear forward and it’ll ping back, thanks to the elastic cartilage it’s made up of. Elastic cartilage is actually ...

A nts remember their encounters with individuals from another nest and treat every member of that nest accordingly. Although ...

T he oldest equatorial dinosaur in the world, and North America's oldest dinosaur, has been described in a new study. Dating ...

X-37B was designed by Boeing and is currently managed by the US Air Force as part of their foray into reusable space ...

Finally, by 1800, the federal government moved to the District of Columbia, and Washington DC fulfilled its promise to become ...

However, wildfire seasons have been increasing in length – and severity – to the point that they are very nearly year-round, and it’s been estimated that they will continue to grow, which scientists ...

If a common factoid is to be believed, the answer is most likely “blue” and “seven”. And we know what you’re thinking: that there must be some kind of confirmation bias at play here; that huge swathes ...

Stomach acid, if given the opportunity, would happily digest our own tissues. It’s released by parietal cells that are tucked within folds along the tunica mucosa lining of the stomach. When it gets ...