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

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 ...

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

An offshore canyon that’s twice as deep as the Grand Canyon recently turned up 40 potential new-to-science species when scientists embarked on the first-ever high-tech dive to the region. Using the ...

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 new ecosystem and providing quite the banquet for a range of deep-sea ...

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

A submarine volcano off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US is set to blow in 2025. Seamounts like this are providing scientists with the perfect opportunity to study the evolution of early ...

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

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

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

The beleaguered bunnies are infected with cottontail rabbit papilloma virus – also called Shope papilloma virus – which is ...