For any Gen Zers in the audience, a filing cabinet is an archaic piece of office furniture that was used by your ancestors in ...

It all boils down to the apparent brightness of an object, or in astronomical parlance, its apparent magnitude. There are ...

"This raises a disturbing prospect—a Kardashev Type III metasociety may annihilate planetary systems as it expands to ...

There’s a good chance it’s currently pumping around your blood this very second. TFA belongs to a class known as per- and ...

A lligators aren’t picky eaters. Given half a chance, they will consume all kinds of fish, birds, turtles, small mammals, and ...

In August 1993, seven hikers climbed the popular tourist destination, Khamar-Daban mountain. Only one witness would survive.

The rare finding was made by a team at Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum, in the UK, who uncovered the surprisingly complete handprint on the bottom of a clay model sculpted into the shape of ...

The defense mechanism increases feeding opportunities for the anemone as it’s waved through the water, but there’s a price. If a boxer crab loses an anemone (there's no honor among thieves), it can ...

The research, supported by the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, shows that even an experiment with a clear mission in particle physics can often find something unplanned. This was also ...

G obi bears are the most endangered of Earth’s eight bear species. Just 40 individuals are thought to be left surviving in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, a place of extreme temperatures and little water ...

Earth plunged into one of the most extreme climate events in its history. In several stages, the planet became a giant ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...