If a 175 pound-man drank five one-liter handles of vodka in a day, he would die. But when a tiny Oriental hornet weighing ...

For centuries, diamonds were one of the most mysterious materials on Earth. They were beautiful, indestructible, and ...

What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...

The new species, named Skiphosoura bavarica, was identified by a team led by Dr David Hone, a palaeontologist from Queen Mary ...

The patches of lichen you’ve probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they’re ...

The first "blueprint" of human skeletal development reveals how the skeleton forms, shedding light on the process of ...

From the archives of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this short film from 1977 describes the mission of the two Voyager spacecraft before they launched on their journey to Jupit ...

Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life.

The widespread use of digital screens in early childhood raises growing concerns about the impact of blue light on sleep ...

When spring arrives, so do warnings about thunderstorm asthma. But a decade ago, most of us hadn’t heard of it. So where did ...

(via Veritasium) The mistakes of Amelia Earhart’s final flight, and the physics that could have saved her.

Now that November 5th is in the rearview, the pressing task of governing—and governing well—is before President-elect Donald ...