Venom’s usually the stuff of nightmares. Animals that wield it send instinctive shivers down our spines. But scientists are teasing out useful purposes for these powerful...
The research into better understanding SARS-CoV-2 goes on, and a new study sheds some light on how likely our household pets are to get infected –...
If you live in a country where daylight saving time (DST) is observed, you’ll be familiar with the biannual shift that our body clocks have to...
Hearing is a skill most of us take for granted. But new research suggests that adults should listen out for changes in their hearing, as hearing...
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in...
An immobile probe sitting like a squat turtle on the surface of Mars has finally delivered a comprehensive picture of the red planet’s internal structure. The...
The Tollund Man is one of the most famous ‘bog bodies’ ever discovered in northern Europe. Even though the 30- to 40-year-old human was buried in...
Australia’s sulphur-crested cockatoos have rapidly turned into big city birds. In Sydney, these large, white, and noisy parrots (Cacatua galerita) have fully adapted to the urban environment, quenching...
Scientists on Thursday unveiled the most exhaustive database yet of the proteins that form the building blocks of life, in a breakthrough observers said would “fundamentally...
Average life expectancy in the US plummeted by a year and a half in 2020 – the largest single-year decline since World War II, according to a...