Elon Musk's personal Tesla might have gotten all the headlines during SpaceX's historic rocket launch last week, but the Falcon Heavy also carried a second, secret payload almost nobody knew about.

Here's one to add to your list of things to be worried about at the beach: sea snails getting into your cuts.

In the latest instalment of 'don't panic over everything you see on social media', a viral photo of a heavily cultured petri dish has been doing the rounds, freaking people out about the use of hand dryers in public restrooms.

An ancient underwater volcano responsible for one of the largest known super-eruptions in history looks to be busy making silent, fiery preparations for its inevitable return.

Decisions are a part of life. At various times you may need to choose the best vacation spot, job candidate, babysitter, or place to live. Your most important decision may be figuring out your best romantic partner.

Part of what makes graphene so fantastically useful is its amazing thinness – it's just one atom thick.

The hunter has officially become the hunted. Last week, the body of a suspected poacher was found mauled by a pride of lions in South Africa.

SpotMini, Boston Dynamics's dog-like quadruped robot, is back, and it's learned a new trick.

Atomic clocks are capable of the most precise physical measurements humanity can make, but because they're so complex, they've been restricted to laboratory use - until now.

There's an isolated, unknown realm that's been cut off from light for so long there's no telling what could survive in its freezing, dark waters – but it looks like we won't have to wait too long to find out.

Roughly half a century ago, Cornell astronomer Frank Drake conducted Project Ozma, the first systematic SETI survey at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

If you're preoccupied with infidelity, new research may help set your mind at ease.

In the midst of one of the worst flu seasons in several years, a Japanese pharmaceutical company says it has an experimental drug that could make next winter a lot less sickly – not to mention safer.

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We have a problem. A serious one. At any moment, a life-threatening global pandemic could spring up and wipe out a significant amount of human life on this planet.

Satellite data measured across a 25-year period shows that not only are the seas rising, they're rising faster and faster – an acceleration that is on track to double the jump in sea levels by 2100 compared with a fixed increase year-on-year.

The modern medical era began when an absent-minded British scientist named Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find that one of the petri dishes he forgot to put away was covered in a bacteria-killing mould. He had discovered penicillin, th

A parasitic eye worm called Thelazia gulosa is pretty common in the northern US and southern Canada - at least in cows.

Most of us won't ever get to see a baby octopus hatching in the wild, but luckily Virginia Aquarium managed to film it happening in captivity, and have share it online for everyone to enjoy.

At the very centre of the image above is something incredible - a single, positively-charged strontium atom, suspended in motion by electric fields.

Arizona native Michelle Myers woke up two years ago sounding like she'd just come back from a very long vacation.