W hen Justin Schmidt was just seven years old, he had a run in with a bee that would send him down a curious path. The offending insect was a honeybee that – annoyed it had been plucked it from a ...

It’s highly likely that humans have pheromones, and there is another clue, which is that our smells – the smells we give off as we grow up and go through puberty – change. As children, we don't smell ...

I n 2013, deep within a Canadian mine, geologists discovered a fracture that contained the oldest known water on Earth. Hidden nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, the ancient water had ...

But… they had survived. For years, in fact. And now, 40 years post-Chernobyl, the wolves in the Exclusion Zone aren’t just ...

Much as we’d like to imagine dinosaurs on skis or skates, their footprints are much more scientifically useful.

Located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Taklamakan Desert is one of the driest places on Earth ...

Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...

It’s not that rare for the Moon to pass in front of Mercury, but it seldom happens when it is this easy to watch.

Reminding someone who has come to rely on a chatbot that they are not human may push them into what's known as the ...

"The longest sediment cores previously drilled under an ice sheet are less than ten metres. We exceeded our target of 200 ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

“DNA is much easier to find in the ‘soft parts’ of an animal – their organs, blood vessels, nerves, muscle and fat,” explained William Ausich, Professor Emeritus of Paleontology at The Ohio State ...