While bacteria are often associated with icky germs, they really are so much more than that. They help us digest things, feed trees nitrogen, play a...
A gigantic fleet of floating rocks, spewed up from an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean, floated across the waves for thousands of miles. Eventually, it made...
In 1604, a white dwarf star went supernova. This is quite normal behaviour for a white dwarf star; but this one, at a distance of just...
A new study on the global pandemic has found those who contract COVID-19 may exhibit a predictable sequence of symptoms, and the order differs from what...
Most diet and health advice is broadly based on the assumption that a calorie is a calorie (and it doesn't matter when they're consumed).
There's a lot going on in the centre of our galaxy. The Milky Way's core is home to a supermassive black hole as massive as 4...
Life was trying, but it wasn't working out. As the Late Devonian period dragged on, more and more living things died out, culminating in one of...
A rare syndrome in which the human gut brews its own alcohol has been successfully treated with a poop transplant when nothing else was working, marking...
A pair of Danish computer scientists have solved a longstanding mathematics puzzle that lay dormant for decades, after researchers failed to make substantial progress on it...
Just as you thought it was safe to go back to ignoring Betelgeuse, the red giant star started acting up again. After its first round of...