Smoked mummification takes about three months, during which time the body is slowly and continuously heated over a low fire,” said study author Dr Hsiao-chun Hung from the Australian National ...

F lying foxes are some of the largest bats in the world. With a body the size of a cat and a wingspan that would make an ...

To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox comes to us from the world of set theoretic geometry. If that’s not familiar ...

"3I/ATLAS achieves perihelion on the opposite side of the Sun relative to Earth. This could be intentional to avoid detailed observations from Earth-based telescopes when the object is brightest or ...

Like the hats that fly off people’s heads, most of the trash that ends up in Yellowstone’s hydrothermal areas winds up there ...

Scientists have estimated that there’s around one gram of gold dissolved in every 100 million metric tons of seawater in the ...

“The occupations in the cave demonstrate that pottery was produced by mobile foragers who hunted and gathered during the Late ...

At G3 the storm is considered "strong", but it is also strengthened by something known as the "Russell-McPherron Effect".

The living cement was made by adding sodium sulfate powder (tasty electrolyte for the bacteria) into cement, and then adding the bacteria diluted in sterile deionized water. The cement slurry was ...

Mostly, earwax is a kind of orangey color – though, technically, it starts off pale yellow and gets darker with age as it ...

After decades of turning our back on Earth’s companion, who is winning the restarted race, and how much does it matter?

It was a long, careful process. “Giraffe as a species can be quite nervous of anything new, so introducing medical equipment takes enormous patience and trust-building. Our keepers adjusted daily ...