Say hello to the Picasso bug, Sphaerocoris annulus. This colorific critter gets its nickname for the beautiful combination of ...

A rather nasty one, this – or at least, a messy one. Norovirus – also known as “Norwalk virus” or the ever-evocative “winter ...

Fruit flies can detect magnetic fields, and the way they do it suggests the capacity is widespread in the animal kingdom, not ...

Humanity has started to find a lot of planets in stars’ habitable zones, now might be the time to start narrowing that to ...

The recently observed type of oxygen is one such isotope – oxygen-28, which has 20 neutrons. Working at the Radioactive ...

The statistics are clear: flying is the safest form of travel by far, with a microscopic 0.002 fatalities per billion ...

W hen astronauts head to Mars, they will experience time dilation. That's to be expected. In fact, your feet and your head experience time dilation, with your head aging ever so slightly faster than ...

However, there are some symptoms that may affect both groups, including: persistent low mood; low energy; difficulty ...

F rom Mesoamerica to North Africa, pyramids were apparently all the rage in the ancient world. Yet while the triangular ...

Against that backdrop, this study emerged, claiming that a cheap and readily available drug might be one of the answers ...

According to Starman, Komarov's final words were picked up by US radio outposts in Turkey, saying "This devil ship! Nothing I ...

T his week, after a 4-year controversy, a paper claiming the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine could treat COVID-19 has been ...