A n area of anomalously hot rocks 200 kilometers (120 miles) beneath the northern Appalachian Mountains could be the product ...

P eople have been searching for the mysterious “sixth sense” ever since… well, since 1761 at least, but potentially since the ...

This tells you one of two things: Either there is a very good reason that a magnet truck won't work, or you are the first ...

The Blob endured for two years, throttling ecosystems as it killed off marine species and disrupted food webs. Its effects ...

At the mouth of the Catatumbo River, an electrical storm unlike any other on Earth takes place for around half of the year.

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R aising offspring is expensive. It costs you time, it costs you money, and for some species: it costs you your life. This is ...

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This result really changes the way I think about long term memory storage,” senior author Dr Daniel Dombeck told IFLScience.

In actuality, the peak mechanical power output of a horse is well over 12 horsepower. That figure comes from a duo of scientists who published a paper in the journal Nature way back in 1993, based on ...

O n April 29, 2017 a thin, dehydrated, and distressed orangutan was rescued after being captured and caged within Indonesian Borneo. While this is unfortunately not an unusual occurrence, the ...