Often called will-o'-the-wisps, jack-o'-lanterns, or ignis fatuus, these bizarre floating flames have understandably inspired ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Shimon Sakaguchi from Osaka University in Japan, Mary E.

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

The “Great American Eclipse” in April 2024 gave researchers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the celestial ...

In an interview with the BBC, professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of ...

Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...

Finally, they watched the whole process using static solid-state deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites ...

"When I come on as a science advisor to any show or film, my first task is to figure out where on the spectrum of science to ...

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual ...