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 ...

They found that the green roofs can trap over 97.5 percent of microplastics during a heavy downpour of rain. Most of the ...

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

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 ...

T he US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has set a new distance record for wireless energy ...

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 ...

S cientists have developed the longest and most complex simulation to date of a binary neutron star collision that results in the formation of a black hole and a jet. The breakthrough will massively ...

U ranus is a very weird planet, and it turns out that there is a newly discovered oddity to add to its already extensive list. Astronomers used Hubble to study the interactions between the planet's ...

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment floats a range of instruments above Antarctica using a stratospheric balloon. The experiment is aimed at detecting cosmic neutrinos, tiny ...