Did you know that a warm-blooded fish lives hundreds of meters below the sea? It’s a strange thought, but a 2015 study proved it to
The Bayeux Tapestry, the medieval embroidery depicting the events surrounding the Battle of Hastings in 1066, may have been hung up in the refectory of
A mouse that was part of an elite team that spent two weeks in microgravity on board China’s Shenzhou-21 spaceship and Tiangong space station has
Have you ever wondered why the Hawaiian language, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, is heavily sprinkled with so many diacritical marks and other special characters? These lightly swishing
It seems that in the last few years, we have been collecting a lot of objects, phenomena, and events that challenge our best understanding of
In 1917, a group of German soldiers arrived at a military hospital near Freiburg after returning from a campaign in Dobrudja, a region of the
The Earth, unless you subscribe to the flat-Earther “model”, rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. But this hasn’t been the case forever, and
Evidence for ammonite survival into the Paleogene era is solid, a new study confirms, indicating that these ancient mollusks were well positioned to inherit oceans
The galaxy is expected to be home to billions of free-floating, or “rogue”, planets that have no stellar companion. These worlds have been kicked out
This week, legal rights have been granted to the planet’s oldest bee species in a world-first, commonly used ADHD medications don’t work in the way
It’s a new year, and what better way to kick it off than by looking back on some of the biggest conservation wins we’ve achieved
Scientists have used AI to identify two novel subtypes of multiple sclerosis (MS), which could offer new, targeted treatments for patients. MS affects around 2.8
China has decided to take hypergravity to a whole new level – testing both materials and fundamental physics in a regime we have not been
Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new subbasement with even weirder stuff.
Are bears getting soft on us? After centuries of living in close proximity with people, a population of brown bears has evolved to become unusually
In 2018, scientists described a new species of spider-like arachnid that lived 100 million years ago. Like modern spiders, it had spinnerets, a palpal organ
A couple of decades ago, anthropologists unearthed an enigmatic ape-like fossil that roamed the Sahara region over 7 million years ago. It didn’t fit neatly
