A new study of the Amazon rainforest has found the region is shifting toward a 'hypertropical' state as droughts become ...

Flames actually extend well above where we can see them. As the soot moves higher up, it cools and emits light in colours that we cannot see, such as infrared light. It obviously isn't a liquid or a ...

Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, reversing its spin, is weirdly textured, and contains an unusual state of ...

Tiny fragments of plastic are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, particularly through our food ...

The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the ...

A curious and paradoxical intolerance for lactose across the South Asian subcontinent could help explain why the ability for ...

The artificial sweetener aspartame can be found in everything from chewing gum to fizzy drinks and tabletop sweeteners.

Not only that, it's among the first dinosaur eggs – or evidence of any dinosaurs, for that matter – found in the roughly ...

A large Swedish study reported a lower risk of dementia among middle-aged and older adults who consumed higher amounts of ...

Inexperienced drivers are more vulnerable to distraction from music. One study of 20- to 28-year-old drivers found ...

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.