Far from staying away from the game, a five-month chess championship took place between Soviet explorers in Antarctica in ...

There is already a component of wood that is transparent: cellulose. However, two other components in wood are not, which are ...

Metamaterials are materials that possess exotic properties, and the metamaterial assembled at the École Polytechnique ...

A ccording to the results of a massive new synthesis study of over 2,000 publications, which leaves no room for ambiguity or ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

They have been around for more than 400 million years, making them one of the oldest known venomous animals on Earth that’s still going strong. All centipedes are venomous predators. By mixing up a ...

Watching this cuttlefish hunting with the passing-stripe display is like being mesmerised by the tricks of a skilled ...

It's basically impossible to overdose on vitamin A by consuming too many carrots, for example, because the body will simply ...

"Early parasitoid wasps may have been smarter than we thought," said study author Dr Taiping Gao to IFLScience.

O ne of the most sensational Biblical-era structures ever discovered in the Judean Desert has just been announced by a team ...

Based on the size of the area surveyed, the team estimated there could be up to 26,715 pieces of trash per square kilometer ...

GS-z13-1, located around 33 billion light-years from us. This galaxy has a redshift of 13.0, which is a measure of how much a ...