W hen Justin Schmidt was just seven years old, he had a run in with a bee that would send him down a curious path. The offending insect was a honeybee that – annoyed it had been plucked it from a ...

I n 2013, deep within a Canadian mine, geologists discovered a fracture that contained the oldest known water on Earth. Hidden nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, the ancient water had ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...

Even palaeontologists used to digs in forbidding places might have baulked at this one, but the results more than vindicated ...

Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...

It’s highly likely that humans have pheromones, and there is another clue, which is that our smells – the smells we give off as we grow up and go through puberty – change. As children, we don't smell ...

Located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Taklamakan Desert is one of the driest places on Earth ...

Reminding someone who has come to rely on a chatbot that they are not human may push them into what's known as the ...

But… they had survived. For years, in fact. And now, 40 years post-Chernobyl, the wolves in the Exclusion Zone aren’t just ...

“DNA is much easier to find in the ‘soft parts’ of an animal – their organs, blood vessels, nerves, muscle and fat,” ...

Once detected, there are plenty of narrow-field telescopes that can track the orbits of anything that looks alarming.

"The longest sediment cores previously drilled under an ice sheet are less than ten metres. We exceeded our target of 200 ...