It started with a handful of unusually tiny bones in Spain, and now researchers say they may point to a plant eating dinosaur ...

Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

Cultures have used ivory for crafting artwork since around 1800 BCE. This material has been great for art patrons over the centuries, but not so much for the elephants. Due to an alarming decline in ...

Noise-cancelling headphones have become increasingly popular for people seeking peace and quiet, whether in a bustling office or on a noisy airplane. But how exactly do they work, and can using them ...

Imagine peering into the night sky with a powerful telescope and seeing galaxies scattered across the cosmic landscape. Some are so distant that their light has been travelling for over 13 billion ...

It is generally believed that people become gradually less sociable as they grow older. Is this actually the case, and if so, what causes this change? A new study published in the peer-reviewed ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have solved a longstanding riddle, dating back over 150 years, on how dormant bacterial spores detect nutrients in their environment and quickly come back to life ...

NASA's InSight spacecraft has given us a peek into Mars like never before! Before it wrapped up its mission last December, it sent back some fascinating data, now published in the peer-reviewed ...

Japanese astronomer Tomonori Totani from the University of Tokyo proposed a novel idea to expand on the existing range of methods to search for extraterrestrial life focusing on space dust that finds ...

As solar energy becomes more common, one problem we begin to encounter more often is a lack of long-term storage. We don't always need energy right at the moment when it is produced. Solutions like ...

Dementia is an umbrella term for a neurodegenerative condition, with cognitive problems (problems related to thinking) that usually start off mild but decline further over time. To get diagnosed with ...

You might not have thought so, but although the Moon doesn't have breathable air, it does possess a thin, almost imperceptible atmosphere known as an 'exosphere'. Scientists have been studying this ...