Category: General

A vast blob of hot rock moving slowly beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the northeastern US is now thought to be the result of a divorce between Greenland and Canada some 80 million years ago.

A study by an international team of researchers…

An organised underground network of individuals and groups is enabling fraudulent research…

The remains of animals dating back more than 10,000 years have…

Transparent-faced fish glide through the murky depths, snow-like detritus drifts from above,…

Quantum computing is interesting. It’s really a wonderful area for research, but my feeling is we have a long way to go. Today we have examples of quantum computers—hardware always arrives before software—but those examples are very…

A comprehensive new analysis of the bite forces of 18 species of dinosaurs has revealed that,…

When Napoleon and his legion of multinational soldiers retreated from Russia in 1812 in the face of dwindling supplies and fierce Russian resistance, little did they know how much worse was yet to come.

While withdrawing from Russia, at least…

Our gut microbiomes do it all. They speed our digestion; they shape our mood; and they train our immune systems. They even replace our cells — or at least, their byproducts do, as recent research reveals that the microbial metabolites that are…

A new species of plesiosauroid — a group of long-necked marine reptiles — has just come to the surface in Germany’s Posidonia Shale fossil beds.

This 183 million-year-old plesiosauroid lived during the Age of Dinosaurs (252 million years to…

Can you teach an old Mars rover new tricks? NASA says the answer is a resounding…