After years of self-administering jerry-rigged antivenom and getting outright bitten by snakes, Tim Friede has a "hyper-immunity" against venomous snakes. Could his blood now hold the key to a ...

"The longest sediment cores previously drilled under an ice sheet are less than ten metres. We exceeded our target of 200 ...

It’s not that rare for the Moon to pass in front of Mercury, but it seldom happens when it is this easy to watch.

F or the first time, a shark has been filmed in the near-freezing waters of Antarctica. Its shock appearance came as a pleasant surprise to scientists as they had no idea sleeper sharks inhabited the ...

Once detected, there are plenty of narrow-field telescopes that can track the orbits of anything that looks alarming. Although a few will remain ambiguous, most of the objects Vera Rubin finds will ...

N ASA’s Artemis II will take astronauts farther into space than ever, past the far side of the Moon, and back to Earth faster than any other human before. But before that can happen, NASA needs to ...

Located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Taklamakan Desert is one of the driest places on Earth and the largest desert in the country. It’s sometimes called the “Sea of ...

“The definition of the solar maximum is when the sunspot number is at its highest,” Dr. Rachel Howe, a solar physicist at the University of Birmingham, UK, told IFLScience. “At the same time, you tend ...

As it turns out, the average individual releases 32 bum ghosts per day, although the researchers noted a wild degree of variation between the most and least active farters. At the bottom end, some ...

The concentrations of lead and other toxic elements exceed FAO limits for children and could pose long term health issues.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in ...