Mammalian ears are pretty damn strange. For humans, they’re a bit unsightly, they’re made of cartilage yet somehow sneak in three bones, and they get
One of the largest collections of human and animal bones ever seen in a Roman feature in Britain has been discovered inside a ritual shaft
A bunch of evidence has shown that ketamine could be used in therapy for depression, although how it achieves this remains somewhat unclear. In a
Saber teeth such as those that belonged to apex Ice Age predators were superbly shaped for puncturing prey and subduing them, a new study has
Quantum computers are the next major leap in computing, bringing the peculiar properties of quantum mechanics to the operations of computers. They run on qubits
If asked about the specifics of a random day in their life, most people would struggle to answer without flicking back through a journal, or
Inefficient wastewater treatment may be exposing as many as 7 percent of people in the US to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – known as
A physicist believes he may have solved the notorious “grandfather paradox”, suggesting that time travel to the past may not be ruled out by this
In the very early hours of January 10, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will attempt the inaugural launch of its massive orbital rocket New Glenn. So
The US Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane has been orbiting Earth non-stop for just over a year. Doing what? That remains unclear, though its
Ants remember their encounters with individuals from another nest and treat every member of that nest accordingly. Although this demonstrates remarkable capacity given their tiny
In 2022, the US Supreme Court’s decision in the case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization effectively ended constitutional protections for abortion by overturning the
Your stomach contains hydrochloric acid, a highly corrosive chemical compound that can dissolve certain metals and would spell seriously bad news anywhere else in (or
Washington DC may be the heart of US politics today, but it wasn’t always destined to be the nation’s capital. In fact, there were moments
Living things have been known to glow thanks to a nifty trick called bioluminescence, but it’s something we more typically associate with animals of the
NASA has announced the next steps for its beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission, the ambitious plans to retrieve multiple samples collected on the Red Planet,
Whale sharks, despite being the largest fish in the ocean, still have pretty secretive sex lives. What we do know about the reproductive behaviors of
