Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...

He now holds the coveted title of greatest distance covered in a motion-sensing vehicle by a goldfish in one minute.

Divers were searching the Bermuda Triangle for lost WWII planes when they found an odd – and clearly human-made – artifact ...

In the trolley problem, you are asked whether you would kill one person to save five. Something odd happens when the problem ...

It isn't quite your run-of-the-mill friction though, instead arising from interactions between multiple magnets.

It started as a joke, but it led to the discovery of a page from an ancient manuscript nobody had seen in decades.

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Plus why if astrophage were a thing, it would be up to the amateur astronomers to save us all.

Rogue waves were dismissed as nonsense for centuries, until New Year's Day in 1995. Their counterpart – rogue holes – were only proved real in 2012.

A committee of non-experts cannot be said to embody ‘fairly balanced […] points of view’ within the relevant scientific ...

Previously known only by locals, the behemoth of a coral structure resides in the Maug Islands in the Mariana archipelago. Fortunately, scientists got the opportunity to study the ...

Birch tar was among the most useful materials available to prehistoric humans and was primarily used as a glue to bind stone ...