Here's a picture to send shudders through every schoolteacher on the east coast of Australia:

Black hole scientists sure have been busy. At the end of last year, researchers announced that the powerful winds emanating from supermassive black holes shape entire galaxies.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of babies and their concerned families suffer from colic - a condition diagnosed simply by intense bouts of excessive crying that last for hours.

Ever wished there was an easy, quick way to cleanse your body of all those 2016 toxins?

Thanks to the recent deep freeze in North America, Calgary Zoo had to take extreme measures to protect its animals from the weather - including even the most naturally cold resistant, the zoo's king penguins.

Every new year we set about making New Year's resolutions. Usually they're related to our physical health: going on a diet, joining a gym or drinking less. But what about our mental health?

Humans may possess an inherent ability to detect sick people from subtle visual cues. This skill could act as a behavioural defence against disease by limiting the risk of contamination, according to new research.

Ever felt your brain a little sluggish a little while after eating sugar or a giant meal? You are probably feeling the effects of a sugar crash, which, new research shows, really can slow down your cognitive function.

As we get older, learning something new becomes more complex, tedious, and time-consuming than ever, and those child geniuses who can speak five different languages become our favourite dinnertime conversation, because how do they even do that?

Doctors in the UK called for a change in glue packaging after a 64-year-old man rocked up to hospital in a sticky situation - he'd put nail glue in his eye instead of eyedrops.

Unforgiving cold has punished the eastern third of the United States for the past 10 days. But the most severe winter weather conditions yet will assault the area late this week.

The strangest and most mysterious star in the Universe goes by a lot of different names, but the boldest one of them all may soon have to be retired.

A brand new type of lens called a metalens has just passed a major hurdle. A metalens is a flat surface that use nanostructures to focus light, and it could change optics forever by replacing the traditional bulky, curved lenses we know.

People in Germany essentially got paid to use electricity on Christmas.

When food-safety expert Bill Marler saw The New York Times' trend piece on Silicon Valley's recent obsession with raw water, he thought he was reading a headline from The Onion.

A study attempting to show that viruses could be delivered to brain tumours has delivered that and more.

In the local people's tongue, her name means 'sunrise girl-child', and even though she only lived for six fleeting weeks, she's already told scientists more than we ever knew about the very first Native Americans.

In the local people's tongue, her name means 'sunrise girl-child', and even though she only lived for six fleeting weeks, she's already told scientists more than we ever knew about the very first Native Americans.

NASA probe OSIRIS-REx is leaving Earth far behind as it makes its way to asteroid Bennu.

2018 is here, and what better way to ring in the new year than by adding a new skill or two to your repertoire?

There is an increasing body of evidence linking alcohol consumption to an increased cancer risk - and now scientists in the UK believe they have found a plausible explanation.