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 ...

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

Parasite cleanses are typically based on the idea that someone has an intestinal parasite infection – so worms or protozoa ...

In May 1883, Krakatoa awoke and started to rumble with volcanic activity, culminating in an intense eruption on August 27. It ...

To complicate the matter, no human remains were found in the sediment layer that contained the arrowheads, although the ...

There’s no point convincing people of the safety of a vaccine if they don’t even know what it protects against.

Antarctica has no native population or permanent residents, but it does have a transitory community of scientists and support ...

Solids and liquids turning to gas can create surprising motion, and in the California desert, moving rocks proved that melting ice could do it too.

Lamb on the lam? Butterflies butterfleeing? Meet some of the zoo animals who made a break for the wild.

After the Maya people known as Lakandon-Ch'ol were forced out of their capital, Lakam Tun ("Great Rock") in 1586, they moved further into the jungle, creating the city of Sak-Bahlán, or the "land of ...

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