It turns out that whoever named the great white shark must have been underneath one, looking up, when they did so: “The name ...

R esearchers have successfully induced lucid dreams involving feelings of compassion and a sense of ego-loss in four ...

If we hope to one day communicate with alien species, it might help to understand the minds of the creatures who share our ...

Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...

In Kenya, though, there’s one giraffe who doesn’t fit in with the others. Dazzlingly white and mysteriously unnamed, he’s the only known such creature in the world: a giraffe with the rare genetic ...

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On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on the unsuspecting Japanese city of Hiroshima. This cataclysmic ...

C alifornian authorities are warning people to avoid the meat of wild pigs in Monterey County as something strange and deeply ...

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Even the largest sharks don’t have bones, which presents an obstacle to palaeontologists, but they’ve found a workaround.

However, the peaks are limited and very valuable real estate on the Moon, and there are not that many to go around. In a ...

Foa’s red colobus typically has a red crown around a grey face, with its body said to resemble someone wearing a grey shirt with red sleeves and red trousers. Males can weigh between 9 to 13 kilograms ...