Seared into the brain of paleontologist Tyler Lyson is the date he cracked open the skull: 10 September, 2016.

It's hot in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar. Like, really hot.

Rigorous testing is at the heart of any successful space mission. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be a million miles away when it deploys its mission-critical sunshield, and if it doesn't function as planned, that's it. Game over.

Pumpkins are, first and foremost, a food. Right? Well, in the UK and the US, the vast majority of pumpkins actually end up in landfill - right after October 31.

Hydrogen peroxide, water's short-tempered sibling, has helped humans to fight infection since we discovered its antiseptic properties nearly two centuries ago. Unfortunately, it's pretty unstable, making it tricky to transport where needed.

It's a lovely thought - a tunnel connecting two regions of space-time, a sort of cosmic shortcut. Such wormholes are mostly thought to belong in the realm of science fiction, since if one happened to actually form in our Universe, physics dictates

No humans live on Mullion Island off the coast of Cornwall in Britain. No humans are even allowed to set foot on the remote island without a permit. Mullion Island is a protected sanctuary for seabirds - and yet conservationists kept finding rubber

Could a tiny planet, with weak gravity, harbor life?

Most people who died from vaping-related injuries used products containing THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, federal health officials said Friday, offering another data point tying the outbreak of lung illnesses to products made with t

Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) stands accused of playing a key role in a paralytic illness that's struck down hundreds across the US in recent years. Unfortunately, evidence of its presence has so far been at best circumstantial, until now. 

People sometimes forget that oceans contain a lot more than the water you see just beneath the surface.

Saturn just hasn't been itself lately. About a decade ago, one of its periodic super storms erupted way ahead of schedule. Now astronomers report on a kind of cyclone in the planet's far north that nobody has ever seen before.

BD +20 307 should not have been so bright. For such an old binary star system, it should have appeared cool in our scopes. Instead, it looked hot.

We've made plenty of progress with sustainable energy in recent years, but there's still a lot of work left to do. Now, there's encouraging news on the development of an 'artificial leaf' that could lead to the production of truly 'clean' synthetic

Air pollution worsened in the United States in 2017 and 2018, new data shows, a reversal after years of sustained improvement with significant implications for public health.

The days of Sesame Street's resident counting vampire are numbered. It turns out toddlers a little older than a year already have a good sense of simple accounting - they can tell apart quantities of hidden blocks after hearing them being counted.

Nobody really knows what a Tully monster is. It's maybe a squid thing. Or like a lamprey. Only it has these weird eye stalks, and a... is that a tentacle or a claw? It's a mouth? Seriously? 

Have you ever sat down to complete your morning crossword or Sudoku and wondered about what's happening in your brain? Somewhere in the activity of the billions of neurons in your brain lies the code that lets you remember a key word, or apply the

The global supply of blood for use in life-saving transfusions is insufficient to keep up with global demand, leaving most countries exposed to critical shortages, new research reveals.

It's that time of year again, flu season is just around the corner and with it comes the dreaded fear of catching the virus. The flu can come on very quickly and symptoms include aching muscles, chills and sweats, a persistent headache as well as a

Few composite materials forged by nature are as tough as mother-of-pearl, or nacre. Now, scientists have finally figured out just how the minuscule layers of this pearlescent substance make it so strong.