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The new species of huntsman also has some strange sexual habits.
Halfway through a year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly woke up to this amazing view. You’re looking at the east coast of the United States, viewed just before dawn on a clear morning from 249 miles above Earth’s surface. Florida is sticking out toward the lower right. In the foreground, you can see the International Space Station’s Canadarm robotic manipulator. Read more >>
The holiday-makers did nearly everything you’re not supposed to do around a threatened species that's trying to reproduce.
If you’re excited about last week’s announcement of a new human-like species discovered in South Africa, you can get your hands on the specimens — sort of.
Trace each and every Earthling back far enough, and you’ll arrive at a common ancestor. For the first time, scientists have built a comprehensive tree of life that binds us all together.
Most of us prefer not to dwell on the End Times, but for the folks at the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, the apocalypse is just another day at work.
The Perlan Mission II will launch to soaring altitudes of 90,000 feet, where it’ll harvest invaluable data on Earth’s atmosphere and climate.
Ice balls keep your drink colder for longer without diluting it that much. Now that's led to a discovering in physics.
It’s a story reminiscent of the way Big Tobacco covered up the deadly effects of smoking.
For thousands of years, history has been recorded piecemeal, in books, artefacts, buildings and legends. But in the age of molecular biology, a new archive is helping to fill in the gas.
California has been experiencing the worst drought in 500 years, and it's had scientists wondering how plants could survive a hotter, dryer planet in the future.
A science publisher is granting paid-for content to Wiki editors and it is causing all sorts of fuss in academic circles.
Scientists who have been figuring out how to make chickens walk like dinosaurs have also been honoured.
The overall rate of malaria infections in Africa has fallen by 50 per cent since 2000 and researchers claim that’s largely the result of a very simple technology indeed: bed nets.
Let's all laugh at the robots and then cower when they retaliate.
Can 'slacktivism' actually work? It can, but it is a little more nuanced than people simply dousing themselves in water.
