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Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D production

After ending up in the sheltered waters of the lake in Raja Ampat, the jellies evolved. Today, people can swim with them – if they’re incredibly careful not to harm these delicate stingless creatures.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology put together a lovely compilation featuring the distinctive spring songs of North American birds.

Blistering temperatures rising to 40°C and above will now be branded "cruelly hot" or "kokusho-bi" in Japan, the weather agency said Friday, as heat wave days become increasingly frequent in the region.

Yet we never forget how to ride a bike.

If starvation and amputation can’t kill this lifeform ... what can?

The giant cuttlefish aggregation at Point Lowly in South Australia is one of the planet's greatest wildlife spectacles.

What’s the loudest noise recorded in history? Well, it depends on how you measure it

Humans are more sensitive to the smell of rain than sharks are to blood. And rain has some surprising benefits for our bodies too – especially when it comes to our mood.

Monkeys with around 300 electrodes implanted in their brain were able to steer avatars around different virtual environments

The urban monkeys in New Delhi are so bold they'll steal the lunch right off your plate.

Earth constantly loses heat through the atmosphere and into space, including countless plumes of energy that escape every day from an under-explored, possibly surprising source: birds.

The Pokémon franchise, including its recent game Pokémon Pokopia, is inspired by real animals and their ecology. It’s no surprise that so many scientists love to try and “catch ’em all”

Going outside without a hat in 1600s England meant you were either completely insane or totally broke.

From recipe changes to aging taste buds, here's why those peanut butter cups don't hit like they used to.

In a new experiment, reengineered balsa wood stored sunlight as heat.

Before the internet, Victorian innovators used the electric telegraph to play chess across the world.

The field of public health was transformed by the introduction of vaccination, from the Latin word “vacca” meaning cow, to guard people against infectious diseases...

The brain stores skills differently than facts, making them harder to forget.

While exploring deep-sea trenches off Japan, researchers found a creature so weird they couldn’t identify it.

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war."

A new hiking trail will soon allow travellers to walk around England's entire coast – but a strange paradox means no one knows exactly how long it is.

Your brain isn’t just looking – it’s predicting. Here’s why that means you can stare straight at something and still not see it.

Oxygen and hyaluronic acid may play a role in tissue recovery and regeneration, two new studies suggest

Our brains master complex musical rules just through a lifetime of casual, passive listening.

We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we'll never be able to travel faster than the speed of light. At first, this may sound disappointing, but upon reflection, 186,000 miles per second is nothing to sneeze at.

Once a thriving sardine fishing island, today Aoshima is home to roughly 80 cats and just a handful of people who look after the felines with the help of food donations from around Japan.

If you were to drift, suitless, through the vacuum of space, the brief moments before your death would be utterly silent.

No art enthusiast's visit to the United Kingdom would be complete without days at the British Museum, the Tate, the V&A and the National Gallery. The fact that all those respected institutions are in London constitutes a plausible excuse never to stray outside the capital.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has updated the Red List status for three of Antarctica’s most famous species after a dire assessment of their prospects under climate change

As thousands of crows darken the winter skies above Portland, Oregon, it makes sense to mind your step

Reading the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson brings the benefits and pitfalls of efforts to terraform the Red Planet into sharp relief. Since the 1970s, when Carl Sagan first suggested the possibility that we could make Mars more Earth-like, that process has been a staple of science fiction. But there’s always been a significant amount of humanity that thinks we shouldn’t. A new paper available in pre-print on arXiv from Edwin Kite of the University of Chicago and his co-authors skirts around the ethical and moral questions of whether we should and tries to take a long hard look at whether we can.

Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy, is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do thr

If monorails have a bad name, The Simpsons may be to blame.