The “giant” part of its name is pretty apt – adult giant garter snakes can reach a whopping 1.62 meters (5.3 feet). Sure, ...

A fter millions of years of peace, an idle volcano is showing its first signs of volcanic unrest. The summit of Taftan has ...

Residents of the US’s West Coast have long feared “The Big One” – the apparently inevitable massive earthquake that will one ...

Up to 88 percent of the mice in the study remained tumor-free, and the team are now turning their attention to human cancers.

Despite its astonishing success, JWST has a flaw that made its observations on some targets borderline unusable, but PhD ...

The planet has been so drastically transformed since in that time, no unmixed trace of the proto-Earth was thought to have ...

The spacecraft in question are NASA’s Europa Clipper, going to the eponymous icy moon of Jupiter, and the European Space ...

Given its scientific species name bella – Latin for beautiful – the "beautiful dwarfgoby" as it is commonly known is quite ...

G reenland, the world’s largest island, is shrinking and shape-shifting. Since the peak of the last Ice Age about 20,000 ...

In an interview with the BBC, professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of ...

By October 1953, 11 cobras had been killed in the city (presumably with the help of garden hoes). Another was captured alive ...

Normally, the enzyme ALDH2 breaks down an alcohol by-product called acetaldehyde, which can cause red flushes and headaches ...