B ack in March 2013, an unusual and tragic story emerged about a man who was swallowed by a sinkhole in Florida. No trace of the person was ever found.

Quantum computing company D-Wave has claimed to have achieved "quantum supremacy" by solving a "useful, real-world problem" ...

Kew’s old sock bonanza marks the first time Pseudohydrosme has bloomed on display in the UK, but the party won’t last for ...

Where does biodiversity come from? It’s a question many generations of biologists have spent their time thinking about.” ...

Okay, so the giant wood moth isn’t exactly of kaiju proportions, but in insect terms, it’s still pretty hefty; some female members of this species have a wingspan of around 23 centimeters (9 inches) ...

O ne-horned rhinoceroses are the subject of a new study of the differences in appearance, behavior, and evolutionary history ...

At the end of the study, all remaining participants said they were “satisfied” or “very satisfied”, and all believed they ...

A 2009 study examining the sleep/wake cycles of S. invicta found that the worker ants averaged a mammoth 253 sleep episodes ...

One of the most surprising findings was that Proteroctopus had two rows of suckers on its arms. Previously, scientists ...

Few other scientific drilling ships exist – and none of this caliber. There is Japan’s Chikyū with a maximum drilling depth of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) and there was the US-owned JOIDES Resolution ...

A vaccine against norovirus, the dreaded “winter vomiting bug”, could be closer than you think: early clinical trials have ...

T here is a fairly popular idea circulating the Internet that a single gram of uranium contains about 20 billion calories, ...