Death Valley, part of the Mojave Desert stretching across California and Nevada, is known for its extreme weather – but in ...

Blazing colors and enticing scents may be showy, but they're just one part of the toolkit plants use to lure in pollinators.

Poop anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they're all terms for what's medically known as parcopresis or difficulty ...

About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two ...

Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, the humble human brain still has the edge over ...

Sleep is central to the proper functioning of the immune system, which in turn has implications for mental and physical ...

Blinking handles essential eye maintenance, and we usually blink multiple times a minute without thinking much about it, though you might be more self-conscious about your own after the results of a ...

The map is called the GlobalBuildingAtlas, and you can access it online now. Compared to previous databases of this type, ...

Despite countless programmes and initiatives, rates of entrepreneurial intention – a marker of how willing people are to ...

A ribbon worm picked up on a Scottish beach in 1864 is thought to be the world's longest animal ever found alive. Some ...

On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38 million obituaries of ...