Few other scientific drilling ships exist – and none of this caliber. There is Japan’s Chikyū with a maximum drilling depth of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) and there was the US-owned JOIDES Resolution ...

A vaccine against norovirus, the dreaded “winter vomiting bug”, could be closer than you think: early clinical trials have ...

T here is a fairly popular idea circulating the Internet that a single gram of uranium contains about 20 billion calories, ...

You might think it strange to long to become a fossil, but the truth is that it's a rare privilege enjoyed by only the very ...

The Mashco Piro are an uncontacted tribe found in remote regions of the Amazon rainforest in south-east Peru. It’s thought ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and resulting tsunami left "megaripples" of sediment 16 meters (53 feet) high and 600 ...

The birth occurred during a routine check-in to the Shark Valley exhibit, where onlookers were able to film Archie coming into the world. Grey nurse sharks ( Carcharias taurus) give birth to live ...

Mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, despite some being given a human "language gene".

A palaeontologist’s call-out for rocks bearing dinosaur footprints around an Australian town has borne fruit, including a densely packed set of prints sitting in the foyer of the local high school, ...

Researchers recorded footballer movement and how close they were to the ball, and found something truly bizarre.

Before their falling out, however, they named the new element after the Latin word for violet or indigo, indicum, since its ...