Western Australian police have announced the finding of an object on an access road to a mine in the Pilbara region. Their social media post
Predator defence can be a pretty big part of an animal’s life in the wild, whether you play dead, try and blend in with your
An extremely rare Egyptian alabastron that was once owned by a royal elite has been found to contain traces of opium. This surprising discovery suggests
Cancer patients receiving a certain type of immunotherapy were twice as likely to be alive after three years if they received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine
Every year, around Halloween, fireballs fall down from the sky. Rather than a sign that God is displeased with us, or we are wearing too
A new study has quantified the carbon footprint of meat consumption across 3,531 cities across the United States. Each year, the cities consume 11 million
Strange dragons can be found lurking at the bottom of a lake in Mexico. Known as achoque salamanders, these mysterious amphibians are among the rarest
Some animals naturally have extraordinarily long lifespans, like the Greenland shark or the bowhead whale. Others, however, far outlive their expected lifespans, reaching multiple significant
Hinduism is often considered the oldest surviving religion in the world, although there are some competing ideas that make this a very knotty (and fascinating)
The results of the first clinical trial of “enteral ventilation” have been published, and are considered a success, a step along the road to a
A prehistoric hominin that lived more than four million years ago in Ethiopia may have climbed like a chimp and walked a bit like a
If you go to the Eastland County Courthouse in Texas, you may lay your eyes on an unusual sight: a dead Texas horned lizard on
The best time to watch Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is upon us. Grab your binoculars, telescope, or just get into a very dark area and
Imagine closing your eyes and rolling a billiards ball across a table. Where it goes; what angles it hits the sides at; how much it
Mormons don’t drink coffee or tea because of guidelines set out in the “Word of Wisdom”, a health code that Joseph Smith, the founder of
If you’d swung by to see the chimps at Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, back in 1997, there’s a good chance you might’ve received a
Material scientist Brian Haidet has filmed laser light moving at 2 billion frames per second, showing the results on his YouTube channel AlphaPhoenix. Haidet has
