The mysteries of gargalesis have tickled the minds of people for centuries. Thinkers from the Greek philosophers Socrates and ...

There are just four villages in the Peruvian Andes where khipus are kept, though the knowledge of how to read them was lost ...

A British toddler has become the youngest ever member of the exclusive high-IQ (intelligence quotient) society, Mensa. The ...

O ver 99.999 percent of Earth's gold is locked away within the Earth’s metallic core, buried beneath 3,000 kilometers (1,864 ...

Our exploration of the cosmos has great potential for understanding life on Earth, but it is clear that we need to think ...

We don’t recommend taking romantic advice from a songbird, but if you did, it might tell you to look after yourself, the kids ...

Researchers have broken the record for the world's first successful petabit-class transmission over more than 1,000 ...

Non-vegetarians, it seems, may well be kinder and more “normal” than vegans and vegetarians – but their meat-eschewing peers ...

At the moment, Kilauea is shooting large amounts of volcanic rock and lava into the sky, with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reporting that the spray reached 300 meters (1,000 feet) into ...

In a new archeological dig, researchers have excavated parts of the Medieval Wall System (MWS), a network of walls and stretches that stretched for 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles) across parts of ...

The tech's goal: to enable conservationists to track wolves, census populations, and reduce human-wildlife conflicts.

Vinegar is on hand in the unfortunate situation that someone gets stung by one of the more deadly types of jellyfish. That’s because, in the case of box jellyfish, vinegar can inhibit nematocysts.