The belief that children cannot feel pain lasted well into the 1980s. It was common for them to undergo surgery while ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Previous claims of exomoon discoveries haven’t stood up well to replication, but perhaps a new method will have more success.

The puzzling electric charge on clouds of interstellar gas can be explained by the passage of two hot, bright stars close to ...

The Berenike monkeys, on the other hand, have been identified as rhesus macaques and bonnet macaques, as well as one grivet, ...

A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

The aircraft will depart Buenos Aires at 02:00 local time, fly westward over the Pacific, before making a 2-hour stopover in ...

When you’re next at the movies, if there’s a particularly gnarly scene where a character gets hurt, take a quick glance at ...

“Soon after this sensation you will feel the speed build and the steady climb continue,” he said. “So when it feels like a ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...