Known to science as Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly can be found across Central and South America. A reasonably common ...

By the 1920s, Brazil’s rubber trees had caught the eye of car manufacturer Henry Ford who had a bright idea: why pay the exorbitant costs of Asia’s growing rubber markets when he could simply buy a ...

There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

Now, why this happens is a question we’re not quite sure about – but there may be a clue in the fact that we’re not alone.

With pale skin, a slinky body, and puny limbs, the olm resembles a ghostly, aquatic serpent that spends its life in dark, ...

The product Is hundreds of times heavier than the Sun, sixty percent greater than the previous record-holder, and challenges ...

According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...

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That study found that when asked to choose random numbers between one and five, the LLMS would choose three or four. For between one and 10, most would choose five and seven, and between one and 100, ...

Squeaks, clicks, buzzes, and babbling, little is off the cards when it comes to the remarkable complexity of beluga communication, but perhaps most extraordinary of all is the way in which they can ...

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

P rehistoric footprints found at the southwestern tip of mainland Europe show how Neanderthal families worked together to ambush prey on the beach. Dated to around 80,000 years ago, the trackways were ...