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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Scientists have observed a never-before-seen form of oxygen, and its behavior could call into question what nuclear physics says about “magic numbers”. Imagine, if you will, that you could see within ...