F lowering plants are a real treat for the senses, but when it comes to the biggest blooms, the talipot palm really puts on a show. With the largest branched inflorescence in the world, it can produce ...

It is a story that has been repeated a lot since. We do love to anthropomorphize space missions. A robot singing itself Happy Birthday was an almost guaranteed to make Curiosity more than just a ...

F or some people, seeing art can give them a kind of “art attack” known as Stendhal syndrome, or Florence syndrome. It’s a ...

There’s a significant body of evidence to suggest that fiber is good for our health, with soluble fiber known to help control ...

The satellite is fully functional, providing valuable data, and may soon be burned up in our atmosphere out out of choice.

A tiny tweak in our brain chemistry may have been the secret weapon that gave Homo sapiens the edge over Neanderthals and ...

I n 300 years, NASA's Voyager spacecraft will reach a hypothetical region of space, long thought to exist but for which we do ...

F our new tarantula species have been discovered in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. While that is remarkable in ...

The other major complication of HTLV-1 is a rare type of cancer: adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL). It’s estimated that ...

NASA interim administrator Sean Duffy, who is also the Trump Administration Transportation Secretary, is set to announce ...

A new giant virus with “unusual” features – including an unprecedentedly long tail – has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean ...

Tyrannosaurus rex is arguably the most infamous of the dinosaurs, renowned for its enormous teeth, teeny arms, and gargantuan size – but just how big did it get? The largest specimen ever found was ...