All the biggest science news stories of the week.

B ack in March 2013, an unusual and tragic story emerged about a man who was swallowed by a sinkhole in Florida. No trace of ...

A vaccine against norovirus, the dreaded “winter vomiting bug”, could be closer than you think: early clinical trials have ...

Q uantum computing company D-Wave has claimed to have achieved "quantum supremacy" by solving a "useful, real-world problem" ...

O ne-horned rhinoceroses are the subject of a new study of the differences in appearance, behavior, and evolutionary history ...

A 2009 study examining the sleep/wake cycles of S. invicta found that the worker ants averaged a mammoth 253 sleep episodes ...

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that ...

At the end of the study, all remaining participants said they were “satisfied” or “very satisfied”, and all believed they ...

The northernmost gold mine from this period was located at Ghozza and operated during the second half of the third century ...

"The tops of this [upward directed lightning] are around 75-80km [47-50 miles], boarding on the fringes of space." ...

Where does biodiversity come from? It’s a question many generations of biologists have spent their time thinking about.” ...

Researchers recorded footballer movement and how close they were to the ball, and found something truly bizarre.