Observing Bathydevius in its natural habitat, the researchers watched the animal use its voluminous hood to capture prey, ...

There's been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming ...

In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Carbon is a gregarious little atom, bending over backwards to link with a wide variety of elements in what is collectively ...

The author John Steinbeck said: "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after ...

Dementia is proving very difficult to treat with medicine, but perhaps there are secret, brain-boosting ingredients already ...

Research has found clothing can harbour many infectious pathogens – including germs such as Staphylococcus aureus (which ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...

Overall, these results suggest frequent nightmares may be one of the earliest signs of dementia, which can precede the ...

More than 10 million schooling capelin were devoured by cod collecting off the coast of Norway within just a few hours in ...