Human activity has shrunk the size of wild animals the world over, and yet recent research has found many mammals living near cities have become steadily...
If the world hadn’t come together to ban ozone-destroying chemicals in the late 1980s, a new study suggests climate change would have drastically worsened global warming...
Early on their quest to reach the Lonely Mountain in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937), Bilbo Baggins and company cross paths with an enormous, shape-shifting warrior named...
In a significant achievement, physicists have produced a two-dimensional supersolid in the lab for the first time. That may sound incredibly mind-bendy, but it’s a feat...
A Chinese satellite mysteriously broke apart in March, scattering into dozens of pieces. Now, a Harvard astronomer has discovered what likely happened: It seems to have...
For the first time, one of the deadliest forms of brain tumor has been successfully 3D-bioprinted, resulting in the most complete lab-grown model yet. Scientists from...
Moderna will start trialling its experimental mRNA-based HIV vaccine as early as tomorrow (19 August), according to a new submission to the US National Institutes of...
People who struggle to recover from COVID-19 could be battling more than just SARS-CoV-2. Their immune systems might also be involved with another virus as well....
The partially mummified remains of an urbane Pompeii resident have been discovered in a tomb outside the city center erected before the famous eruption that buried the town...
Can you remember what you had for dinner last Tuesday? Or on this day last year? It turns out that cuttlefish can, right up to old...