W hen Justin Schmidt was just seven years old, he had a run in with a bee that would send him down a curious path. The offending insect was a honeybee that – annoyed it had been plucked it from a ...

It’s highly likely that humans have pheromones, and there is another clue, which is that our smells – the smells we give off as we grow up and go through puberty – change. As children, we don't smell ...

I n 2013, deep within a Canadian mine, geologists discovered a fracture that contained the oldest known water on Earth. Hidden nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, the ancient water had ...

The other discovery is the cooling of the atmosphere. Combining the observations from JWST with measurements from Voyager 2, ...

Even palaeontologists used to digs in forbidding places might have baulked at this one, but the results more than vindicated ...

But… they had survived. For years, in fact. And now, 40 years post-Chernobyl, the wolves in the Exclusion Zone aren’t just ...

“DNA is much easier to find in the ‘soft parts’ of an animal – their organs, blood vessels, nerves, muscle and fat,” ...

Once detected, there are plenty of narrow-field telescopes that can track the orbits of anything that looks alarming.

Under a rock shelter on the eastern flank of the plateau, archaeologists discovered a remarkable collection of ancient ...

Much as we’d like to imagine dinosaurs on skis or skates, their footprints are much more scientifically useful.

It’s not that rare for the Moon to pass in front of Mercury, but it seldom happens when it is this easy to watch.

Located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Taklamakan Desert is one of the driest places on Earth ...