After the Big Bang, it was cold and black. And then there was light. Now, for the first time, astronomers have glimpsed that dawn of the...
Science may have finally figured out why women are often seized by the urge to eat newborn babies. A study conducted by researchers at the University...
Most of the coverage of Europe’s weather over the last week or so has been, rightly, focused on the so-called, ‘Beast from the East’ and the...
A basking shark-like fish — only the size of a sardine — is helping paleontologists better understand the earliest branches of the vertebrate family tree. The...
Space is a dangerous and unforgiving place, and spending time away from gravity takes its toll on the human body, as many astronauts have found out...
Regions of low-oxygen and no-oxgyen in Earth’s oceans are growing in size and number, according to a new study — the most comprehensive survey of ocean...
Scientists at a leading laboratory in the United States are using a cutting-edge form of X-ray to scan inside an Egyptian mummy that has never been...
A fragment of bone claimed to be from St Nicholas – the 4th-Century saintly inspiration for Father Christmas – has been radio carbon tested by the...
An astronomer in Australia has published a new map of the cosmos’ high-velocity gas. It’s the most detailed map ever of the universe’s fast-moving molecular clouds....
An asteroid that visited us from interstellar space is one of the most elongated cosmic objects known to science, a study has shown. Discovered on 19...
Scientists have successfully performed a head transplant on a corpse, and are ready to do it on a living person, according to the man famous for...