It's one of the oldest, weather-worn clichés: that people who wear glasses are somehow smarter than those who don't. It's ridiculous, unfounded, and – it turns out – actually true.

In 2015, a psychologist in Italy figured out how to induce a drug-free altered state of consciousness by asking 20 volunteers to sit and stare into each other's eyes for 10 minutes straight.

Last month, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that Australia would be allocating over $500 million Australian dollars (or $379 million USD) in a last-ditch attempt to save the Great Barrier Reef.

Wow.

The exact causes of schizophrenia are veiled in mystery, but scientists have been trying to work out whether it could develop during pregnancy. Now a powerful new study has pointed to the mum's placenta as a key place to look - and it could be the

Around 7,000 years ago - all the way back in the Neolithic - something really peculiar happened to human genetic diversity. Over the next 2,000 years, and seen across Africa, Europe and Asia, the genetic diversity of the Y chromosome collapsed, bec

Powering cold, hard mechanics with muscle tissue is a promising idea that so far hasn't delivered awe-inspiring results.

Last year, 'declassified' videos of numerous UFO encounters and reports of a top secret Pentagon program to investigate them made headlines around the world.

The mystery is over in thankfully very short order and we've got our Fallout announcement.

Next week at WWDC we get to wake up to the excitement of fresh news on what the next big Apple software release, iOS 12, will bring to our iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs.

The early-morning blast on Mother's Day was big enough to stop nature itself, if only for a moment.

Off the coast of Hawaii, nearly a kilometre beneath the waves, an active volcano bubbles, spewing heat from beneath the seabed. This is the Lō'ihi Seamount, and NASA is studying it in the hopes of learning more about extraterrestrial life.

20 years ago, Time Magazine put a goateed man and some plants on its cover, declaring a breed of rice would save the world's children.

Human brains are some of the biggest in nature, but it's not altogether clear why that is. A pair of studies are now suggesting a new hypothesis – that a family of genes responsible for building up brain matter has given our endocranial volume (E

By Earth's standards, you could hardly imagine a stranger world than frigid, tiny Pluto. It resides in the far corner of the Solar System at an average of about 4 billion miles from the sun.

For several weeks Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano has been shooting rocks, ash, and plumes of heated gas into the sky. Sooner or later all this activity was bound to have some sort of effect on the local weather.

Dark matter, or at least a portion of it, could be carrying an incredibly weak electrical force - equal to about a millionth of an electron's charge. That's according to data from the Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionisation Signa

A tiny, 2,100-year-old mummy from ancient Egypt had long been thought to contain the remains of a treasured bird - which would make sense, considering the hawk-themed decorations and small size.

Batteries powered by radioactive materials have been around for more than a century, but what they promise in power they usually lose in bulk.