Five years on from the first news of COVID, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

As a caterpillar, a grass skipper butterfly is an architect. It builds its home by weaving silk, which the caterpillar uses ...

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How much food did the world produce last year? What was the extent of wildfires? How many people died in disasters? While all of these issues are covered in the media in some form, they’re often ...

Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent ...

The Ségognole 3 rock shelter, known since the 1980s for its artistic engravings of two horses in a Late Palaeolithic style on either side of a female pubic figuration, has now ...

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The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to study distant quasars – the brightest objects in the universe – have captured a rare image that raises new questions about how they form. Quasars can ...