It’s fair to say that growing new life is rarely easy. For humans, it involves a lengthy stay in the womb before being squeezed out
The first-ever evidence-based dietary guidance for adults experiencing chronic constipation has just been released, and you might be surprised by some of the recommendations. Advice
Human classification, from celestial bodies to living organisms, often starts with their morphology. Depending on how something looks, it gets a certain label. This is
On a small stretch of land near the Kenya-Somalia border lives the world’s rarest antelope, a curious-looking, “four-eyed” animal called the hirola that once roamed
This week, the world’s first butt-drag fossil shows a 126,000-year-old hyrax scooting across the ground, the first-ever living recipient of a pig-to-human liver transplant survived
In 2000, the famous 1997 Levitating Frog experiment hopped its way to an Ig Nobel Prize, thanks to Dr. Andre Geim and his team, who
People on social media have noticed an odd quirk in the iPhone calendar: if you scroll back to October 1582, you’ll see it jump straight
A military spacecraft launched 56 years ago was moved from its orbit – and nobody is quite sure who did it, or why. The rest
For reasons that nobody is fully sure of, society seems to have decided that Real Men Eat Meat. It should perhaps be taken as proof
The Atacama Desert in Chile might be one of the driest places on the planet, but even this barren landscape can occasionally bloom into a
When trying to identify the nature of dark matter, sometimes it’s the things it doesn’t do that tell us the most, like turning the center
Golden moles are pretty special, rarely seen, and occasionally even rediscovered. They also have the curious characteristic of being the only known mammal with iridescent
How do you change a medical treatment protocol that’s been around for 200 years? It’s not easy to step outside the status quo; but if
Today, the largest land animal in North America is the bison, which can clock in at nearly 4 meters (13 feet) in length, and weigh
Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor and continues to be a treasure trove of information about the condition of its formation. As it speeds
Marking a defining moment in the “historic shift” away from fossil fuels, renewable energy surpassed coal to become the world’s largest source of electricity in
Creative experiences can delay brain aging, according to new data from 1,240 people. Across a range of different creative pursuits, scientists discovered that the more
