B urt, perhaps one of the most famous crocodiles in the world, has died at the ripe old age of around 90. The ...

K īlauea in Hawaiʻi started bursting with lava and belching out volcanic gas in the early hours of Monday morning, providing ...

The Svalbard Reindeer might not have a glowing red nose like Rudolph, but they’re still stars of the Arctic tundra. These ...

Since the development of the IVF procedure, over 12 million babies have been born using some form of the IVF method. For some ...

Researchers at Texas A&M University have made some discoveries about how chronic alcohol use impairs the brain's ability to ...

The Denmark Strait cataract: the waterfall you’ve never heard of The Denmark Strait cataract – the word also refers to a big ...

The main theory, which went all the way back to Aristotle and ancient Greece, was that birds hibernated during the winter and ...

G lobal cloud coverage appears to be shrinking and could be exacerbating the warming effects of climate change, according to ...

A pink or reddish tint in mucus means there’s blood present. This often happens when the nasal tissues are irritated, dry or ...

Q uantum teleportation has been demonstrated over a fiber optic cable carrying classical traffic (like the Internet) for the ...

As sackfuls of letters poured in, the program was expanded to include members of the public. This meant that from the 1940s, ...

One such scientist is Professor Lisa Kaltenegger, an astronomer who quite literally wrote the book on Alien Earths. That was ...