T he coldest place on Earth is the East Antarctic Plateau. In this desolate desert, on July 23, 1983, air temperatures at Russia's Vostok Station plunged to around -89.2°C (-128.6°F), significantly ...

Studying brain scans from nearly 4,000 people across the whole spectrum of human life, from newborns to 90-year-olds, a team ...

A total of 175 generations of painters followed the same set of rules when depicting the cosmos at Pecos River.

According to those who do it, particularly in colder countries, it can promote better sleep. But what does the science say?

Though the exact length of a "stadia" is unknown, his measurement is thought to be accurate to within one percent of the ...

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows ...

The evidence is not visual, as we might expect when we picture lightning. Instead, it is audio recordings from the SuperCam ...

Your fight or flight response is supposed to be for life or death situations, not answering an email.

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

Still, there was the odd unofficial reprieve given here and there. In 1963, for example, President John F. Kennedy received a ...

The machine learning model also revealed only semi-terrestrial habitats for mesosaurs, a group of marine reptiles from 290 ...

Known to science as Raphus cucullatus, dodos also went by the nickname “wallowbird”, said to have been inspired by the way ...