Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Angler fish mating begins when the male angler fish literally sinks his teeth into the female. He attaches himself permanently and lives as a parasite on the female's larger body. However, as their ...

Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species ...

If you took the entire 13.8 billion year history of our Universe and condensed it into a single calendar year, what would that look like? This video explores significant milestones, including the ...

Ilia Ivanov was determined to find a way to hybridize humans and chimps, but the idea never should’ve made it beyond science ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Dax Grant is the CEO of Global Transform and an authority on C-suite leadership. Global 100 CIO, 100 Women to Watch, CREA Global Award List. For years, artificial intelligence has been framed as a ...

Preparing to send astronauts back to the moon is no small feat. Spaceflight exposes the body to both known and unknown risks, some of which are subtle, cumulative and difficult to predict. When humans ...

A drop in the number of huge animals 200,000 years ago may have forced ancient humans to abandon heavy-duty stone tools in favour of lightweight toolkits to hunt smaller animals. That’s according to a ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from being a ...