A beautiful photograph of a cougar that met its end at the bottom of a lake shows the remarkably intact animal covered in a fluffy
Strange, tiny structures have been found in the rocks around the deserts of southern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Scientists are now confident that these
Despite a relatively short history as a nation, going back just a couple of centuries, there is a precedent for such an ostrich policy. For
In its dying moments, the Blue Ghost lunar lander captured the first high-definition images of a sunset on the Moon. The lunar nightfall differs subtly
Things are getting a bit spicy at Mount Spurr in Alaska, where geologists have been reporting an increase in seismic activity for almost a year.
A man in Australia who received a titanium heart has achieved a double world-first, after becoming the only person to survive with the artificial heart
We all enjoy a nice hot cup of joe to perk us up in the morning – or at least, around three out of four
Images have been securely transmitted by satellite using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) between ground stations in China and South Africa, a record-breaking distance of 12,900
A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky at the galactic poles
It was a Monday morning like any other in mid-March 1995. But then again, that’s always how these things go, isn’t it? As people rushed
When Howard Carter famously discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, he found the pharaoh’s body covered in the petals of a type of water
If there’s one thing you should know about Yellowstone National Park, it’s that it’s always changing – and that can mean the appearance of a
We are a step closer to understanding the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter. The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope has just released its
Half a century or so ago, the world was facing a nightmare made real. A mystery monster had taken root – it was in the
The velvet worm is pretty cute as invertebrate predators go. A leathery rope of an animal with a fuzzy, velvet-like texture. It has two antennae
It’s easy to blindly accept that clocks move clockwise, sweeping left to right on the upper half of the face and right to left on
Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, rocky terrain, and gold-spewing volcanoes.
