November 28, 2018

Scientists have found the funniest words in the English language

Why is ‘boobs’ or ‘wriggly’ more likely to get a laugh than, say, ‘taxes’? What makes some words funnier than

Online chat with customer support has a creepy privacy risk you probably don’t know about

It happens all the time. You’re online, checking out products, maybe looking for a holiday, or researching home loans, when

Astronomers just detected an enormous ancient galaxy orbiting the Milky Way

Just as moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, and stars orbit galactic cores, galaxies can be orbited by other, much

These cave art fragments could be proof of humans doing astronomy 17,000 years ago

A scene painted on a cave wall more than 15,000 thousand years ago appears to tell the simple story of

7 major countries are massively behind Paris Agreement goals. Also, we don’t have a Planet B, people

On the eve of the most important global climate meeting in years, a definitive United Nations report has found that

Mummies in incredible condition have been found in a 3,500-year-old Egyptian tomb

The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has been going hard on the archaeological discoveries this year, but are we tired of

Turns out Neanderthals and early humans had sex waaay more than we thought

Most modern humans have a little bit of Neanderthal hiding somewhere in their genes. For years, it was assumed that