The puzzling electric charge on clouds of interstellar gas can be explained by the passage of two hot, bright stars close to ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

In the quest to understand why agriculture started in a particular place and time, understanding the climate is crucial.

What’s impressive, though, is that they still managed to be surprised.

For many Christians today, the Bible is one of those very few permanencies in the world. It connects them to a world ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...

The success of a transplant from a patient with only one copy of the protective gene might be a one-off, but may also allow ...

This top-down effect is technically known as a trophic cascade – a “domino effect throughout the ecological community,” as Pacific Wild puts it. As wolves hunt animals in the rung of the food chain ...

Most of the time, a thresher shark's tail is gently swishing side to side to move through the water, but it's capable of a ...

T he Malaysian earthtiger tarantula was first described in 1891 by respected Swedish arachnologist Tamerlan Thorell. However, ...

The problem was with software that calculates the elevation of a plane. Solar particles from the Sun can mess with the ...