Winter has cleared the air of dust on Mars, allowing the Curiosity Rover to take a stunning panorama of its alien surroundings. On July 3, while...
Protected areas will only help species migrating to escape a warming climate if enough of them, strategically located, allow for reproduction, a study of the English...
With rising temperatures and significant climate shifts predicted for Antarctica in the years to come, the icy continent could use a break. Well, now it’s had...
The skeletal remains of two lovers, buried together more than 1,500 years ago in northern China, were recently discovered locked in an eternal embrace, a new...
Recently, we’ve been learning that the world is a much… glowier place than we ever suspected. More and more terrestrial organisms have been found exhibiting biofluorescence...
What makes a ‘good’ life? And how do we measure it? These are questions as old as humanity itself – with many potential answers – but...
A newly discovered asteroid has the second-shortest orbit that we know in the entire Solar System, pipped only by Mercury. It’s named 2021 PH27, and it...
Statistics aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. They can be complicated, bad actors can cherry pick what they like, and sometimes they can tell us things we...
Politicians, business leaders, YouTubers and celebrities are calling for the planting of millions, billions or even trillions of trees to slow climate change. There are currently...
Millions of years ago, an ancient sperm whale had a very, very bad day when a megatoothed shark – possibly the fearsome Otodus megalodon or its ancestor Otodus chubutensis, the largest predatory...