A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...

An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

Scientists have found scour marks on the seabed made by giant icebergs about 18,000 years ago, and they could offer clues to ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

A device has enabled people to see a new a shade of blue-green, which they say is more intense than any experienced before ...

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

In 2004, a remarkable life-saving public-private health project began on Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island, off the coast of ...

Mice overcame a Lyme disease infection after being given an antibiotic that is often used for pneumonia, and its effect on ...

Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, ...

Last week astronomers reported hints of biological activity on a distant planet, but a re-analysis of their data suggests the ...

Hackers may be able to garble the output of programs running on quantum computers, leaving other people with unknowingly ...