T here’s a pretty big variety in the bird world. From tiny wrens and goldfinches to flightless species like ostriches and powerful swimmers like gannets, the birds of planet Earth have a lot of niches ...

R esearchers have built the USA's most powerful laser yet, so powerful that the only way to describe its power is to compare it to the world's annual consumption of electricity. The instrument, called ...

W hile photographing the auroras during a geomagnetic storm, Mike Lewinski caught sight of something extraordinary: a ...

C hinese scientists report the discovery of a new strain of bacteria that exists only inside the Tiangong Space Station. The ...

From the silent strut of T. rex to a bobble-headed sauropod, Walking With Dinosaurs is full of scientific surprises, so we delved behind the scenes to find out more.

What the team saw was that solutions that came with an “aha!” moment were remembered much better by participants than those ...

This might be the closest thing to a true Atlantis, a giant plane once occupied by humans now lost beneath the oceans.

The pilot whale calf was seen surfacing and swimming slightly to the side and behind a female orca, in a position known as ...

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication.

While there are other similar videos with similar reasoning circulating on the social media app, the true extent to which ...

Callery pear trees, also known as Bradford pear trees, are an ornamental tree that’s been in the country for just over a century. They were first imported to North America from East Asia in 1909 to ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...