“The sounds are beautiful and interesting, but from a practical standpoint, natural sounds can be used to document the health ...

A new digital map of the road network that once connected the Roman Empire has been created, revealing a staggeringly vast ...

“These are truly live-bearing, so they give birth just like us,” herpetologist, evolutionary biologist, and study author Dr ...

When people say “vote like your life depends on it”, they usually mean how you vote – but voting at all might be lifesaving.

“The average travel speed of automobiles on unrestricted autobahns is 141.8 km/h (88 mph),” pointed out Franklin Mao, then an ...

B urrowing for 137 kilometers (85 miles) beneath New York, the Delaware Aqueduct holds the title of the world’s longest ...

Known for their shy and reclusive behaviour, echidnas look a bit like a spikey porcupine with a long snoot – although they’re ...

Only one star cluster currently known matches the criteria we would expect for the long-sought Population III stars, three ...

A new study has become the first-ever to definitively identify an ankylosaur hatchling. The specimen is around 115 million ...

O ur blue planet may be the most habitable we know of, but it still contains pockets of toxicity here and there. The Atacama ...

Gars are sort of like the poster child for “living fossils”. A living fossil is considered to be an animal alive today whose ...

One such question, asked every now and then, is why humans float more easily in saltwater. There are a few places in the world where this is especially apparent, for example in the Dead Sea, or in the ...