James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary. Laura is an editor and staff writer at ...

The spores were picked up by scientists as they drifted in the stratosphere, which typically has harsh conditions that would ...

A n 89-year-old man has been killed in a fatal bear attack in Florida, USA. Authorities have announced the death of Robert ...

Nothing is stopping you from ignoring this rule, but it will make your sentence sound a little bit clunky and unnatural. For ...

The nocebo effect appears to work more strongly and more persistently than the placebo effect when it comes to pain, a new ...

Cohen-Bodénès and Neri observed two cuttlefish species, Sepia officinalis and Sepia bandensis, to look for repeated waves. They observed four “arm wave signs” they describe as “consisting of ...

Another reason is for safety. Having a mirror allows you to see the whole of the elevator, meaning you have a better chance ...

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication.

The smoke is created by burning the ballots, and originally just meant that no pope had been elected. It was only in the conclave of 1914, which elected Benedict XV, that different smoke colors were ...

The internal motions can be measured as waves pass through them, and those waves – beyond making beautiful sounds – can tell us a lot about the properties of the stars. This is the field of ...

The classic test of delayed gratification shows that the promise by a peer – even a stranger – to achieve the same goal helps ...

Unfortunately, as is often the case with sending spacecraft flying into the Solar System, not all of the probes made it to their final destination. One probe, launched in 1972, failed to make it to ...