Micherre Fox, a 31-year-old from Manhattan, New York, recently unearthed the 2.3-carat diamond – about the size of a pea – at ...

Claims that environmental protections are obstacles to the space industry do not match evidence of what happens around ...

A lmost all human languages follow Zipf's law of abbreviation – and it turns out, so do bird songs. This strange observation ...

To see the event at its best, it’s better to wait for later in the night, when both the Moon and the Pleiades are visible ...

Every year, millions of pieces of space rock enter Earth’s atmosphere but burn up before they can reach the ground. It is ...

How do you get a paper retracted? Hint: it doesn’t usually start with a strongly worded opinion piece from a senior political ...

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A whale fall is when a whale carcass sinks to the bottom of the ocean and comes to rest on the seafloor, supporting a whole ...

This is known as gravitational lensing. The Cosmic Grapes were made 100 times brighter and larger than they would otherwise ...

P olar bears have become something of an icon for the Arctic. The world’s largest land predators, they are big, they are ...

Nick Royal’s image of a male blue ground beetle ( Carabus intricatus) took the Best in Category for 'Research in Action'.

A species’ common name can often be misleading. Koala bears aren’t bears, starfish aren’t fish, and the mountain chicken is ...