The sixth Close-up Photographer of the Year competition has come to a close in spectacular style with the winners announced in all 11 categories, as
Towana Looney, a woman from Alabama who last year became the third person to undergo a pig kidney transplant, is reportedly still recovering well after
The return of brown bears to parts of North America where they had been nearly eradicated is a win for conservation, but it creates a
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief emissions of radio waves, lasting a fraction of a second but with as much energy as the Sun’s over
Have you ever looked at a spitting cobra, firing venom at their enemies from their fangs in self-defense, and thought “I wish humans can do
How different are we from Neanderthals? The answer is “not as much as we used to think”. Or, to put it another way, the more
In the mid-1990s, scientists made a discovery that shook up the understanding of life on Earth: vast reservoirs of microbes can be found beneath the
A German aerospace engineer has set a new world record, after living for 120 days under the sea in an attempt to prove that humans
Astronomers have found evidence for what might be a planet with about half the mass of the Moon orbiting the pulsar PSR J0337+1715 – this
A near-Earth “asteroid” recently spotted by astronomers poring through telescope data has turned out to be Elon Musk’s car. On January 2, the International Astronomical
Issue 31 (February 2025) of CURIOUS is out now, bringing you science highlights for the month plus deep dives into intriguing topics, interviews, exclusives, diary
During his life, Ted “the Kid” Williams was known for being one of the best hitters in baseball history. Now deceased, his brain is currently
The USA has a reputation for coming up with some pretty wacky uses of nuclear weapons, from dropping nuclear bombs on the Moon, to dropping
While the violent plant life of Day of the Triffids is thankfully fictional, that doesn’t mean that you’re entirely safe from our planet’s flora. Certain
With their scenic beauty and iconic geological features, the United States’ array of national parks makes for great places to visit. However, not all are
Long before Westeros, fantasy and science-fiction author George R.R. Martin had a hand in creating Wild Cards, a shared science-fiction universe involving a pathogen called
Have you ever just wanted to smash things? Perhaps you’ve had a particularly trying day, the boss has said something that’s gotten your back up
