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

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

The recently observed type of oxygen is one such isotope – oxygen-28, which has 20 neutrons. Working at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (note: they do not mass produce little beams and package ...

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 ...

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

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

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

According to Starman, Komarov's final words were picked up by US radio outposts in Turkey, saying "This devil ship! Nothing I ...

“But not anymore,” he continued. “Now, young adults (on average) are the least happy people. Unhappiness now declines with ...

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