If you rub two identical balloons together, they both pick up a static charge. This strange and unexpected behavior has been documented in the scientific literature and remains fun ...

If you have ambitions to start exercising or get the most out of your exercise routine, there are a lot of flashy tricks promising to help you. But not all of them are supported by scien ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space – a phenomenon once ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can ‘catch’ yawns from an android imitating human facial expressions, according to new research ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the ...

His gaze softens as he draws closer to you. With one hand around your waist and the other cradling your jaw, he pulls you in.

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Archaeology isn't exactly easy, so it's pretty impressive how often we can figure things out about people that aren't around anymore. But that's not always possible, and some mysteries l ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

Eating a high-fat diet containing a large amount of oleic acid – a type of fatty acid commonly found in olive oil – could ...

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years prior to cancer diagnosis, according to a ...