Humanity has started to find a lot of planets in stars’ habitable zones, now might be the time to start narrowing that to ...

Fruit flies can detect magnetic fields, and the way they do it suggests the capacity is widespread in the animal kingdom, not ...

A rather nasty one, this – or at least, a messy one. Norovirus – also known as “Norwalk virus” or the ever-evocative “winter ...

The statistics are clear: flying is the safest form of travel by far, with a microscopic 0.002 fatalities per billion ...

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W hen astronauts head to Mars, they will experience time dilation. That's to be expected. In fact, your feet and your head experience time dilation, with your head aging ever so slightly faster than ...

However, there are some symptoms that may affect both groups, including: persistent low mood; low energy; difficulty ...

Pliny The Elder once wrote of elephants: "Of all other living creatures, they cannot abide a mouse or a rat." Elephants being ...

The results revealed that while the median lifespan of Southern right whales is 73.4 years, 10 percent are capable of ...

The original definition of “healthy” put limits on how much saturated fat, sodium, total fat, and dietary cholesterol could ...

T his week, after a 4-year controversy, a paper claiming the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine could treat COVID-19 has been ...

F rom Mesoamerica to North Africa, pyramids were apparently all the rage in the ancient world. Yet while the triangular ...