Zealandia sits in the Southern Hemisphere and is around 5 million square kilometers (1.9 million square miles) big, but 95 ...

I n most (but not all) cultures, it’s incredibly rude to ignore a sneeze – it has to be publicly acknowledged with a go-to ...

You might not expect there to be many health lessons from an animal so distant from us in time and evolution, but new ...

Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

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

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Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

Gracanin told IFLScience that most of what we know about greater gliders is based on people peering up 15-40 meters (49-131 ...

The work of Everett Senior shook up the world of linguistics and aroused a fair amount of controversy. He used the Pirahã ...

These are the unfortunately final moments of victims of the Uloboridae spiders, a family of orb weavers that, unlike almost all other spiders, don’t inject venom. Without their own built-in lethal ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) offices in Fairbanks and Juneau issued the initial heat advisory on June 12, followed by an updated advisory on June 16 warning of temperatures up to 29.4 to 31.1°C ...

A while back, the Internet was puzzled by a physics problem involving a set of scales, an iron ball, and a ping pong ball of equal size. Now that that one has been cleared up, Reddit has been mulling ...