The human Stone Age was, undeniably, the first step on a journey towards the species total technological dominance – but it ...

N early 162 years ago, a visionary predicted the evolution of machines and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) with ...

A fter centuries of rumor and speculation, archaeologists have finally confirmed the existence of a colossal underground ...

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and ...

According to the calculations, the likely object was a white dwarf about 10 percent the mass of the Sun. It was moving about ...

B. vaderi is part of the genus of giant isopods called Bathynomus, a group that can reach over 30 centimeters in length and ...

T hawing ice has unveiled remains of a long-lost forest in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, indicating the profound changes ...

D elicately detailed tattoos have been discovered etched onto the bodies of 1,200-year-old mummies uncovered in Peru.

A ustralia might be home to a large proportion of the world’s deadliest animals but it's about to have three more. The iconic Sydney funnel-web spider, with one of the world’s deadliest bites, has ...

In 2008, a team of researchers studying deer and cattle found something a little unexpected. Both animals, when grazing or resting, appear to align their bodies in the north-south direction. "Farmers ...

There’s another form of fossil evidence that has taught us about dinosaur sex: soft tissue fossils of their genitalia. Or, to be specific, really just one so far: a remarkable fossil Psittacosaurus ...

Due to the large number of positively charged protons within a gold nucleus, negatively charged electrons on the innermost shells are pulled in closer to the nucleus, more than they are in silver.