Discoveries

How Do Cancer Cells Migrate to New Tissues and Take Hold?

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as m...

See Fantastic Frogs in 15 Fun Photographs

Hop through these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

How a Fragile Insect Living 100 Million Years Ago Becom...

A bug, a dinosaur and a tree intersect, creating the perfect conditions for resi...

The Dire Wolf Hoopla Hides the Real Story: How to Save ...

Rather than resurrect extinct species, cloning technology could save those at ri...

How THC, the Psychoactive Compound in Weed, Gets You High

Most people know weed gets you high—but do you know how THC actually does it?

Islamic Medicine and the Biopolitics of Antiscience in ...

When Islamic Medicine Kills the Ayatollah! The post Islamic Medicine and the Bio...

Excavation in Sudan shows Roman Empire wasn’t as mighty...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the R...

New colour seen for the first time by tricking the eyes

A device has enabled people to see a new a shade of blue-green, which they say i...

Claims of alien life are overhyped – and miss the real ...

Whenever there’s even a slight chance that an exoplanet shows signs of biologica...

Quantum GPS can help planes navigate when regular GPS i...

A quantum sensor using Earth's magnetic fields outperformed standard GPS backups...

Artificial light pollution could fuel growth of toxic a...

The "skyglow" produced when light from cities bounces off clouds can help cyanob...

Hot methane seeps could support life beneath Antarctica...

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ...

Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to...

A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one...

Lab-Grown Teeth Are Another Step Closer to Reality, Sci...

"A more durable and biologically compatible solution than fillings or implants."

Largest Structure in The Universe May Be 50% Larger Tha...

How can something so big exist?

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