Science And Nature

The UK Will Finally Officially Recognize Octopuses And Crabs as Sentient Beings

The UK has officially recognized octopuses and crabs as sentient beings – finally catching up to well-established science on these intelli...

Last seen around 80 years ago, the Xerces blue butterfly has been presumed extinct ever since. Its extinction has been considered the first ...

A weird quantum effect that was predicted decades ago has finally been demonstrated – if you make a cloud of gas cold and dense enough, you ...

A new type of cell has been identified in the heart that is linked to regulating heart rate – and the discovery promises to advance our unde...

An exclusive report in National Geographic has found evidence for what is the largest incidence of mass child sacrifice in the Americas, and...

The order of the planets is something most of us learn in school: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and (until ...

Food waste is a terrible thing, but busy lives make it easy to lose track of what’s expiring first in the kitchen cupboard. There are some f...

A school in rural Arkansas has made the important switch to renewable energy, covering a field in solar panels to power their school distric...

“I knew there was a chance I could easily be killed by this whale,” whale scientist Nan Hauser can be heard saying in an interview with BBC ...