It’s highly likely that humans have pheromones, and there is another clue, which is that our smells – the smells we give off as we grow up and go through puberty – change. As children, we don't smell ...

W hen Justin Schmidt was just seven years old, he had a run in with a bee that would send him down a curious path. The offending insect was a honeybee that – annoyed it had been plucked it from a ...

I n 2013, deep within a Canadian mine, geologists discovered a fracture that contained the oldest known water on Earth. Hidden nearly 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) below the surface, the ancient water had ...

But… they had survived. For years, in fact. And now, 40 years post-Chernobyl, the wolves in the Exclusion Zone aren’t just ...

“DNA is much easier to find in the ‘soft parts’ of an animal – their organs, blood vessels, nerves, muscle and fat,” ...

Much as we’d like to imagine dinosaurs on skis or skates, their footprints are much more scientifically useful.

Even palaeontologists used to digs in forbidding places might have baulked at this one, but the results more than vindicated ...

Blind snakes stood out as the only major group with no recorded cases of cannibalism. This may be because they never evolved the highly flexible lower jaws seen in other snakes, which allow them to ...

Against measles’ 12-18, smallpox – one of the most feared and deadliest diseases humanity faced, until it was eradicated – had an R 0 of 5-7. Polio is about the same, while the Ebola virus that caused ...

While there is some evidence to support the idea that these psychopathologies are associated with different forms of ...

The discovery of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS last year provided insights into a never-before-seen object. It's different from the two known other interstellar interlopers that we ...

The ability to communicate symbolically is one of the hallmarks of our species, yet scientists still don’t know exactly when ...