Those famous memories come in useful when a member of the herd is sick.

Global South countries will be worst affected by the phenomenon sweeping the planet from June to February.

People raised their eyebrows at the physicist whose paper on stars with black hole cores was inspired by Soundgarden, but maybe he was onto something.

The work could help resolve two of our biggest questions about the Sun: the original cause of solar storms, and why its upper atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface.

If Elon Musk is serious about making a “historically accurate” Odyssey film, he should include multiple climate disasters.

We should save them for their ecological value and their resemblance to furry flying carpets, not because of any Olympic-standard gliding skills.

Almost two centuries later, astonishing fossils are still being found in Wellington Caves.

We wouldn’t recommend drinking deep, but it might taste sweet.

Every geologic category must have a record-holder, but sometimes the standout is on a whole different scale.

We took a tour of model that stretches for hundreds of kilometers and were reminded that space is really big.

Just when it seemed the galaxy must be sterile for light-years around our home system, a new hope emerges.

All cause infant mortality fell by an eighth in areas where the vaccine was given compared with those where it was not.

The slow spread of the virus, even within the confines of a cruise ship, suggests it is unlikely to become another COVID-19.

From a climate perspective, you might say this was a particularly well-behaved volcano.