For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have cultivated a close relationship with fire. But for all our fascination and intimacy, both with its dangers and...
We all know by now that eating less meat is good for the planet - the production of meat products for human consumption leaves behind a hefty...
After your heart beats one last time, but before your body begins to decay, your life will come to an end. Strange as it seems, physicians...
It's been 27 years since the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) overturned a policy that banned women of childbearing age to be part of...
NASA's Mars Odyssey probe has been orbiting the Red Planet for almost 19 years now, making it the longest continually active spacecraft in orbit around a...
Five taste sensations and just three types of taste cells make up the world of flavours - or so we thought. A new discovery indicates there...
We've found the fastest known star in the Milky Way. In the extreme environment at the centre of our galaxy, a newly discovered star called S4714...
Something strange has happened in the voice boxes (or larynxes) of primates: these organs have evolved much faster than in other types of mammals, based on...
The world could be headed for an 'information catastrophe' as the rate of production of digital bits continues to accelerate with no sign of stopping, new...
One of the world's most prominent astronomical observatories has a hole.