Stick insects are notoriously difficult to spot, and it's not just because they're camouflaged. Scientists in Australia have just discovered two entirely new species of stick insect in areas of the ...

Exercise is good for you – that much we can all agree on – but which exercises work best for which types of benefit? Knowing ...

In a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers document a case of complete regression of ...

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a ...

There's no proof of other life beyond Earth yet, but scientists are constantly looking out and listening for signs that we're not actually alone in the Universe.

A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank.

Of all recorded weather disasters, hurricanes cause the most catastrophic amounts of personal loss and infrastructure damage ...

We know, broadly speaking, that staying active keeps us healthy, and getting in a certain amount of steps each day is a ...

These underwater cells were specifically designed to capture the spectrum of light that reaches through 5 to 10 meters of ...

Following the atomic devastation of WWII, the world found new, more benign uses for radioactive decay. Power plants, medical ...

A new investigation into the ancestry of dog genetics, reported in Nature Communications, could go some way to explaining why ...

It's not every day that a new species is discovered. Nope, that figure is closer to 44 new species per day, on average, as science identifies over 16,000 new organisms per year. Many of these may be ...