The dead, if you are to heed the warning of burials conducted hundreds of years ago, may not always lay
Animals that eat fruits will inevitably consume some that are a little past ripe, and a little more boozy –
Editor’s note – In 2022, as generative AI began to take the world by storm, a very creepy phenomenon started
You can probably picture a vampire: Pale, sharply fanged undead sucker of blood, deterred only by sunlight, religious paraphernalia and
If you sit sufficient monkeys in front of sufficient typewriters and give them sufficient time, eventually their random banging will
It may surprise you to know that the world is full of ghosts. Not the specters of the deceased lingering
Anthropologists have peered through the thick jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and identified a long-lost Maya city with stepped temple
You’ve most likely never seen an ant like this before: in an ultra-closeup, Lithuanian photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas snapped a shot
In the year 1181 CE, the sky exploded. Well, a part of the sky – a pinprick of nothing suddenly
Recent research on animal sleep behaviour has revealed that sleep is influenced by the animals around them. Olive baboons, for
Most of the fossils that we find in Earth’s crust are preserved in sedimentary rock, where layers of mineral cover
Are you scared of clowns? You are not alone. Coulrophobia, or the fear of clowns, is a widely acknowledged phenomenon.
In May 2023, the ESA’s Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), currently in orbit around Mars, sent a signal to Earth
Hurricane season seems to be rallying for a final surge of storms. AccuWeather, a world-leading weather forecasting company, predicts that
Compared with the arms of an octopus, our own bony limbs are about as flexible as old tree branches. It
The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. And those still functional
What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ways
Remember that amazing ‘first image’ of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A) black hole at the heart of the Milky Way? Well,
The creeping shadows and haunting decorations transform the everyday into something eerie at Halloween. And you might be thinking about
Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2023, locking in future temperature increases for years to
If an explosion of gas opens a great cavity in Siberia’s permafrost, and no one is around to hear it,
If you’ve ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept browsing from one article (or page, or
A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has
The abyssal depths of the world’s oceans are a place of eerie mystery. The creatures that lurk therein live strange
On one level, sudoku is a simple and fun way to pass the time and keep the brain ticking –
In Morocco’s southeastern desert, a rare downpour has brought lakes and ponds back to life, with locals – and tourists
Scientists have watched an animal species evolve right in front of them in a fascinating 30-year-long experiment. The rough periwinkle
“They took a dead man and cast him into the well, and then filled it up with stones.” So declares
Say hello to ionocaloric cooling. It’s a new way to lower temperatures with the potential to replace existing methods of
Neutron stars with a penchant for extreme spinning could be churning out one of the most sought-after particles in the
When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we’d be
Globally, nuclear power accounts for roughly 10 percent of electricity generation. In some countries, such as France, this figure is
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. Now an AI neural
Scientists have long known about the ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) mice and rats make. Beyond the range of human hearing, the
A delicate, three-year analysis confirms the ‘Ganzhou Mini Egg’ is the tiniest dinosaur egg ever known. At just 30 millimeters
A relative newcomer to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has broken a six-year drought in the search for
A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant
In the constellation of Cygnus, some 7,800 light-years from Earth, lurks a real space oddity. There, a black hole in
A comet that was predicted to become bright enough to see with the naked eye at Halloween seems to be
Suspended in the relic of an ancient sea beneath southern Arkansas, there may be enough lithium for nine times the
For most of our evolutionary history, human activity has been linked to daylight. Technology has liberated us from these ancient
Despite huge advances in cyber security, one weakness continues to overshadow all others: human error. Research has consistently shown human
Although our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is relatively placid, the center of the Milky Way wherein it resides is not
Chile has launched a vaccine described as the first of its kind that sterilizes dogs for a year and is
Heist movies are seldom about solving climate change, and for a good reason. Nobody wants to hear a voice murmur
A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and
Meteorites have a pretty bad reputation. The most recent major impact with our planet was – to be fair –
Cats have lived alongside humans for around 12,000 years, and during that time, it seems they’ve been paying close attention
