Born in 1162 CE, Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in history. It stretched 24 million square kilometers (9.27 million square miles) at its height, ...

In the UK, the first birth following a living-donor womb transplant took place in April 2025. After a successful Caesarean ...

Genes underpinning how the brain responds to nicotine could be a promising new target for drugs to help people quit smoking.

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Luckily, it did not have to face Shelob, but it might have learned about the past habitability of the Red Planet.

T he birth of a baby animal is always an exciting time, but for the team at the Bronx Zoo, the recent pitter-patter of tiny ...

U trecht's famous fish doorbell, which first began operating in 2021, is returning for another year. Soon, people of the ...

“Knowing that a ‘whinny’ is not just a ‘whinny’ but that it is actually composed of two different fundamental frequencies that are created by two different mechanisms is exciting,” Alisa Herbst, a ...

Located somewhere beyond the orbit of Neptune, this mysterious object lies within the Kuiper Belt, a ring-shaped region of space in the outer solar system. Populated by thousands of icy, rocky bodies, ...

We are losing species at an alarming rate, and the world urgently needs a distributed network of global BioVaults – a true backup plan for life on Earth.” ...

Most of the rocks that fall from the heavens are tiny, ending up as meteors or fireballs, burning brightly in the sky in a more or less continuous fall. More serious objects are r ...

But sometimes, his inventions took on a more playful bent. Not for nothing was the classical Arabic term for mechanics and ...