Within the depths of a Malaysian rainforest’s shadows an astonishingly plant, lacking sunlight-eating leaves, bizarrely blooms. This small, otherworldly growth, belonging to a group of rare...
The Amazon rainforest is on track to get a whole lot less rain over the coming century. Even if deforestation is completely halted, research has found...
Microbes fished from the stomachs of cows can gobble up certain kinds of plastic, including the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) used in soda bottles, food packaging, and...
Comets are boozy beasts. They come in here to the inner Solar System from goodness-knows-where (the outer Solar System), get a little warmth, and start spewing...
Children are always going to find cunning ways to bunk off school, and the latest trick is to fake a positive COVID-19 lateral flow test (LFT)...
How does the human brain keep track of the order of events in a sequence? New research suggests that ‘time cells’ – neurons in the hippocampus...
To go to the edge of death and back again is a journey few people take so much remains a mystery about near-death experiences. Now new...
Way back in the Late Triassic period, in what is now modern day Poland, a long-snouted dinosaur ate a big meal of green algae and then...
Gravitational wave astronomy has just given us another amazing gift: the first observational confirmation of one of Stephen Hawking‘s predictions about black holes. An analysis of...
Record heat and growing wildfires are creating firestorms that can generate their own lightning in the skies above British Columbia, Canada. As heat and smoke from...