Archaeologists have revealed evidence of a never-before-seen sacrifice of family members belonging to the ancient Andean Moche culture, revealing new insights into their social world,
A duo of researchers at Caltech have attempted to quantify the speed of human thought, putting it at a somewhat perplexing 10 bits of information
Were you to visit a wealthy philanthropist’s dinosaur island, you’d no doubt feel cheated to find yourself faced with an ostrich. It might not be
Stick two humans in an enclosed space with nothing to do, and before long, someone is likely to suggest a game of I Spy. Kids
The holiday season is here, and streets are filled with festive sparkles, twinkling lights and cheerful Christmas songs. While many of us are looking forward
COVID emerged suddenly, spread rapidly and killed millions of people around the world. Since then, I think it’s fair to say that most people have
For as long as humans have set eyes on Earth, we’ve been besotted with red – the color of blood, lust, luck, pain, and passion.
In Season 4 of IFLScience’s podcast The Big Questions, we’ve delved into some of the most intriguing (and biggest) scientific puzzles of 2024, from whether
The magnetic field – or magnetosphere – is a giant invisible shield that protects the planet, repelling solar wind and other forms of space weather
Though you might think that compasses will always point towards the geographic north pole, the magnetic and geographic poles do not always align. As well
The shortest distance between any two points is a perfectly straight line, and given the brilliant efficiency of the natural universe, it figures that linear
Life has limits that mean that not everything we can imagine is possible, a multidisciplinary team of scientists has argued. The capacity to rule out
In 2018, Tahlequah the killer whale made headlines and broke hearts after she was spotted carrying the body of her dead calf for 17 days.
Researchers have developed a new groundbreaking technology that can convert some cancer cells into a state that resembles normal cells without killing them. This approach
A team studying the group behavior of ants has found that, in the right circumstances, ants can outsmart humans in collective problem-solving tasks. Researchers from
Lucy, our 3.2 million-year-old ancestor of the species Australopithecus afarensis, may not have won gold in the Olympics – but new evidence suggests she was
The Pyramids of Euseigne are far, far older than the Pyramids of Giza – although, perhaps comparisons are a little unfair since they were crafted
