By placing squid pigments into a photovoltaic cell, researchers revealed the animals' incredible color-matching ability may be solar powered.

Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum, with decades of Alaskan marine ecology preserved in brine and tin.

In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually ...

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history.

Children under eight should not drink slushy ice drinks containing glycerol, researchers have warned after a string of hospitalisations in the UK and Ireland.

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Astronomers have been looking for exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star, the nearest solitary star to Earth at just 5.96 ...

A trove of fossilised dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, ...

Scientists have put a face, but not an official name, to the earliest human ancestor ever found in Western Europe.

What's good for your aging gut may also be good for your aging brain. The first study of its kind in twins found that taking ...

When we think of climate change, we may consider extreme weather events – record-breaking heatwaves, heavy downpours and ...

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you'll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right ...