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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

While the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development, its story might actually end with ...

Many ancient cultures used musical instruments in ritual ceremonies. Ancient Aztec communities from the pre-Columbian period ...