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

A new study has suggested that up to 60 percent of near-Earth objects could be "dark comets", a strange class of objects that ...

F reeze-dried skin samples of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia have enabled scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of ...

Leg amputees are walking more smoothly, climbing stairs, and stepping over obstacles, thanks to a new type of prosthetic limb ...

The government in Alberta, Canada has announced an end to the 18-year ban on hunting grizzly bears in the province, drawing ...

“Five cubs in a litter are the most we have ever observed in the park, at least from 1959 to present — the period of the park ...

There are 700 species of crayfish, the freshwater cousin of the lobster. While many of them evade predatory eyes with ...

Over the years, the ancient chalk figure has been getting slimmer due to encroaching grass, which has now been removed.

The Bubonic plague that killed a third of the population of Europe and parts of Asia in the 14 th century stands as possibly ...

Two NASA astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) have described the moment they realized ...

Singapore is known internationally for its food – so far, for its ability to embrace cuisines from around the world and meld ...

Neptune’s magnetic field is almost as angled as that of Uranus, but Voyager’s measurements of its proton radiation belt were ...