Radiocarbon dated to the end of the Second Intermediate Period or the beginning of the New Kingdom, the mummy contained ...

T he bald eagle has been an (unofficial) icon of the USA for centuries, acting as a squawking symbol of freedom that appears ...

It begins with preproduction, crafting your story and characters on paper long before you start making physical models. It ...

We don’t yet know if it matters, but you might want to check what your tea bags are made from, or start using loose-leaf.

Say hello to the Picasso bug, Sphaerocoris annulus. This colorific critter gets its nickname for the beautiful combination of ...

N ever seen a gogotte before? Also known as concretions, some of the most mesmerizing examples come from the Fontainebleau ...

A rather nasty one, this – or at least, a messy one. Norovirus – also known as “Norwalk virus” or the ever-evocative “winter ...

Fruit flies can detect magnetic fields, and the way they do it suggests the capacity is widespread in the animal kingdom, not ...

Humanity has started to find a lot of planets in stars’ habitable zones, now might be the time to start narrowing that to ...

The recently observed type of oxygen is one such isotope – oxygen-28, which has 20 neutrons. Working at the Radioactive ...

The statistics are clear: flying is the safest form of travel by far, with a microscopic 0.002 fatalities per billion ...

W hen astronauts head to Mars, they will experience time dilation. That's to be expected. In fact, your feet and your head experience time dilation, with your head aging ever so slightly faster than ...