Like all beautiful things, the Mediterranean Sea isn’t going to be around forever. As two of Earth’s great tectonic plates crash together in super slow
This week, Ice Age Amazonian rock art has been interpreted and appears to depict shamans spiritually transforming into animals, a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cub has been
What will you take away? When choosing the best scientific event to attend each year, people shouldn’t just look at the list of exhibitors and
Fraud might be a crime, but it’s hard to deny it inspires some creativity – and in the case of an alleged insurance fraud scheme
A rare deep-sea shark has been caught off the coast of Albania exhibiting an unusual skin pigment disorder that has turned it ghostly white. It
If you’ve ever shared a bed with someone who grinds their teeth in their sleep, you’ll be familiar with the unmistakable and unsettling sound of
The recent death of a red panda kit at Edinburgh Zoo has prompted fresh calls for tighter restrictions on fireworks in the UK, after veterinary
The fossilized remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, complete with footprints of extinct animals, have been discovered by accident in the Italian Alps. Dating to
Some animals have a curious way of emitting light that we humans can see when we shine a blacklight on them, a pastime that community
Here at IFLScience, we like to answer all manner of questions about the world around us. Sometimes that means tackling the big stuff, and other
Galaxy 2MASX J21240027+340911 has been known to have an active nucleus for a decade or so. At its core, a supermassive black hole was feeding
Although it may sound like hyperbole, measles cases really have surged across the world in the last few years. According to the World Health Organization
This week on Break It Down: turns out the one time we saw Uranus it was having an uncharacteristically windy moment, new meanings behind the
A major realization of Einstein’s general relativity is the fact that massive objects warp space-time in a way that is similar to a lens, magnifying
With a love of human sacrifice, warfare, and towers made out of human skulls, the ancient Aztecs certainly knew how to have fun. Just to
For the first time, scientists have recovered the mummified, frozen body of a juvenile saber-toothed cat from the Arctic permafrost in Siberia. Despite being over
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark
