A sprinkling of radioactive plutonium atoms hidden in the ocean floor may trace back to a cosmic cataclysm more than 100 ...

Magic mushrooms are better known for producing hallucinations and altering people's sense of reality than for treating brain ...

It's rare to see the two brightest natural objects in the sky (after the Sun) meet up in the daytime sky. It's also rare to ...

Like much of human history, the last throes of the Stone Age featured crises, conflicts, and intimate death rituals, many of ...

In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

The researchers found that when the monitored fish chose to make a move to join their peers, a recognizable burst of neuron ...

For years, flavour additives in e-cigarettes have been largely viewed as a secondary concern compared with nicotine.

Using atoms of thorium-229, physicists have built functional clocks based not on the oscillations of electrons, but on the ...

We can't make our own vitamin C, so we need to imbibe enough of this essential nutrient through our diets. Through our bodies it flows, from the stomach, into the blood, and up to the brain. Past ...

We're talking, of course, about the famous Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) – a plant that lures prey into a leafy trap, ...

It was clear that something had gone seriously wrong with the thousand-strong swarm of drones twinkling above Darling Harbour ...

Autism is a complex condition that can affect different people in very different ways. While researchers have learned a lot ...