E very spring, Bogong moths ( Agrotis infusa) fly up 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to take shelter in the handful of ...

The results showed that the tarantulas could run just as fast as they had before they lost their limbs. The footage showed ...

G uns, according to many a Second Amendment advocate, don’t kill people – people kill people. It’s a catchy turn of phrase, ...

According to the legend, the ancient text was made by a sinful monk in one night, after making a deal with the devil to avoid ...

“If you go to our sun, you have 15-million- [degree] temperatures,” Schweda explained. “The hottest stars [are] 100 million.

You’d think there would be a law against this, and scientists thought there was, but somehow it happens, and it could help ...

Towering at 13 meters tall and spanning 15 meters wide (42 by 49 feet), the sand battery was built by Polar Night Energy on behalf of the power company Loviisan Lämpö in the municipality of Pornainen, ...

To make this thousand-color map, astronomers used over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer ( MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. More than 100 exposures were stitched in ...

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

They found that the green roofs can trap over 97.5 percent of microplastics during a heavy downpour of rain. Most of the ...

Nothing stays the same for long, even Earth's seemingly solid crust. Your day-to-day perception of the ground you stand on might suggest otherwise, but our planet is an ever-changing, shape-shifting ...

T he animal world is full of contradictions, from tiny mouse-deer that are neither mice nor deer, to vampire squid that ...